While studying at BYU, Katrina fell in love with her humanities classes, spent a semester in France in ‘98, and took a beginning drawing course. After receiving a Bachelors of Science in Early Childhood education at BYU, she chose to follow a childhood dream of becoming an architect. She started graduate classes at UNLV in the fall of 2001. She and a few friends in the program lived in Turin Italy, the following summer, studying the famous gardens, hill towns, and great cities of northern & central Italy. A graduate professor & mentor noticed within her, a talent to design in the field of Landscape Architecture. Deciding that she wanted more than to design buildings, rather, to design on the large scale (developments, master planned communities, regional parks, town centers), as well as the small scale of gardens & residential design, she continued to study with professor Mark Hoversten, FASLA, & received her Landscape Architecture degree in 2004. During her last year in the Landscape Architecture program, Katrina befriended & fell in love with Carl Berg, of Heber City, Utah. They married the week after her UNLV graduation.
After Carl graduated in the Landscape Architecture program, the summer of 2005, they returned to the Heber Valley. Immediately, Katrina was stricken with Heber Valley’s charming old homes, barns, tractors, & trains. Within that first week she knew that she wanted to paint them.
A member of the Midway Artists Association, Katrina received inspiration and confidence while participating in the annual Plein Air competitions of 2006 & 2007. Though she began painting in water color, her more recent work is done in oil. The love of architecture and nature draws Katrina to each of her subjects. The desire to emphasize nature’s effects of light & shadow on man-made beauty, are what inspires her painting style. Though photographs can give a wonderful feeling & memory to a subject, Katrina feels that the subjects are given new life and spirit when painted and loves to use color to accentuate certain parts of each subject. Though she has found beauty throughout the world, her heart lies in the Heber Valley. Nearly all of her current works are of valley subjects.
After Carl graduated in the Landscape Architecture program, the summer of 2005, they returned to the Heber Valley. Immediately, Katrina was stricken with Heber Valley’s charming old homes, barns, tractors, & trains. Within that first week she knew that she wanted to paint them.
A member of the Midway Artists Association, Katrina received inspiration and confidence while participating in the annual Plein Air competitions of 2006 & 2007. Though she began painting in water color, her more recent work is done in oil. The love of architecture and nature draws Katrina to each of her subjects. The desire to emphasize nature’s effects of light & shadow on man-made beauty, are what inspires her painting style. Though photographs can give a wonderful feeling & memory to a subject, Katrina feels that the subjects are given new life and spirit when painted and loves to use color to accentuate certain parts of each subject. Though she has found beauty throughout the world, her heart lies in the Heber Valley. Nearly all of her current works are of valley subjects.
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