Kate, or 'Katie' as I called her, was my big sister. Being the youngest of four girls, I learnt to observe. So I can tell you that Katie was quite perfect growing up....studious, hard working, polite, sociable, and happily, very accessible to Beth and myself. Sisters can be tricky business, but Katie was wonderful with Beth and myself when we would somehow lose our inner compass pointing North. When Katie was in her thirties,the so called rules were broken and the true Kate revealed herself. Her paintings were a reflection of who the model young girl had become. No one one can paint as she did unless they have an interior life, a spirituality, a sensuality and were fearless to live life's every adventure. No one navigated a hip replacement or cancer better. I often think if she had painted what she lived, suffered and more importantly learnt through her physical challenges that it would have been a series of powerful paintings reflecting life's greatest lessons. I like to think of her now in the grandest of all studios painlessly and gloriously painting. The essence of Kate is what each of us who knew or loved her now carry in our hearts as we go on with the life she so wanted to stay and live. As it's Thanksgiving, I am so grateful that she was my sister. Katie, I love you and I miss you. Elaine were fearless to live life's every adventure. She innately knew it wasn't the destination but the journey can counted. Sisters are a tricky business, but she was always there for me and for Beth when the twists and turns of the journey seemed impossible to navigate. No one seem to know a hip replacement or cancer better.I have often thought since Katie has left us that if she had painted what she had lived, suffered and learnt through her physical trials, it would have been a series of powerful paintings which we all would have learnt from. Kate has now moved on. I like to think of her painting the bigger canvas that we each will see one day. The essence of what she is painting is now what each of us must carry in our heart as we go on with the life she so wanted to stay and live. Katie, thank you for your life...and the lesson. I love you. I miss you. Elaine