



| Artist, teacher, beekeeper and singer, Kat Fitzpatrick has been a Bay St. Louis resident since 1991. An artist born and raised, she credits her mother, Jean Hammett with sharing her own passion for art and for making it look fun. Kat has shared her love for art with many children on the Gulf Coast as a teacher at Coast Episcopal School and now through art classes in her studio at Bay Artists Co-op in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi. Beekeeping, under the guidance of "bee-mama" Judy Redshaw (Jordan River Honey) has been a new found passion and a source of future art materials. Kat's love of the ancient medium known as encaustic has infused her art with a reverence for bees and an urgency to restore the natural balance of her Cedar Point neighborhood by reintroducing bee hives. She is happy to report that they are thriving and have played their part in pollinating satsumas, limes, lemons and many flowers in her yard. |