Kathy Beekman

The gallery owner, though successful, retired in just over a year's time of carrying Kathy's artwork. Kathy contacted the Canyon Road Contemporary Art gallery to see if they had interest in carrying her paintings. The owner immediately took a look at her website and said, “You are exactly the type of painter we have been looking for." Ownership of the gallery has changed hands and has been in business for well over thirty years. Beekman's paintings continued to be one of the gallery's top sellers. In 2018, she reunited with the original owner of the Canyon Road Contemporary Art gallery. He purchased, in the summer of 2018, Marigold Arts which is situated on Canyon Road in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He is once again happily representing Beekman's highly collected paintings.

During the summer of 2013 she authored a book, Prosper, A Success Book for Artists, and in the same year began creating webinars, which were made available on the Internet, in which she focuses directly on art marketing-related topics.

In 2006, Beekman began being approached by others wanting to know how to make it as a professional artist. At that time, she added career coaching for artists as another service that her business “Beekman Fine Art & Design” offered.

During the fall of 2005, Chris and Kathy took a Thanksgiving trip to Santa Fe, New Mexico. Their plan was to relax and enjoy the city and find a gallery for Kathy's paintings. With portfolio in hand, she approached the Blaire Carnahan Gallery on Canyon Road. The gallery director and owner both agreed the paintings would be a good fit. Before the end of the conversation, Beekman's paintings were hanging on the gallery's walls.

Late in 2001 another move took the Beekmans to Denver, Colorado. There Beekman began showing her artwork in local and then regional galleries. Her subject matter changed to portray that of rural countrysides. About this same time, the director of the Foothills Art Center in Golden, Colorado, contacted her and asked if she would consider teaching adults the art of pastel painting. Beekman began teaching painting workshops and private lessons on a regular basis.

In 2000, Beekman lived in Jalisco, Mexico, and worked alongside her husband on his archaeological project. She excavated in the field and rendered project artifact illustrations. It was while on this particular project that she began to build her first significant body of artwork since graduating from college

During the latter part of 2000 and beginning of 2001, Beekman and her husband lived in Ypsilanti, Michigan. It was here that she began showing her work in galleries. The first body of work consisted of pastel paintings which portrayed Southwestern and Mexican adobe architecture.

She graduated from Siena Heights University in 1993 with honors and a Bachelor of Fine Arts. Her first jobs after college were working for a small picture framing business and for the Fort Wayne Civic Theatre, where she painted 200-foot-wide backdrops, one of which was televised on the program Good Morning America. She was also the props mistress which involved the managing, sourcing and collecting of props. Beekman then returned to school attending Indiana Purdue University of Fort Wayne where she concentrated in Archaeology. There she met her future husband Chris Beekman, an archaeologist, and the two were married in 1999.

Kathy Beekman (born 1971) is an American contemporary pastel painter.

Kathy Beekman was born in Evanston, Illinois, in April 1971. She is the first of four children of Edward Morris and Mary Lou (Thieme) Morris. She spent the first four years of her life in Illinois before moving with her family to Fort Wayne, Indiana. There her childhood days were filled by playing outdoors in the woods, playing games of hide and seek on her thickly foliaged property, and spending an endless amount of time drawing, coloring and daydreaming. Both her father and mother were educators in schools as were four of her aunts and an uncle.