Kathleen Veronesi was born in Santa Monica, California in the early 50's:  the only daughter out of five children.  Her roughish father was an independent film-maker and her French mother was a microbiologist and a science teacher.    The atmosphere of the household was quite stimulating and she was encouraged to develop her artistic career at an early age. In her twenties, she was the typical "bohemian" artist with many survival jobs.  Her first official recognition came in the fall of 1976 when she was awarded the "Christopher Columbus Gold Medal" in Genoa, Italy for a chiaroscuro painting titled "The Immigrants". 

In the late seventies she worked as an "Imagineer" for Walt Disney Productions, where she brought dreams to life and where her need to go beyond reality found a more condusive environment in the "story telling" worlds of Epcot and Disneyland.

In the fall of 1982, she was presented with an opportunity  to study in Paris at L'Ecole des Beaux Arts, and in that year she met her Italian husband.  They were married and began a new life in Italy where her two daughters were born. Here she found a group of kindred spirits in the wild and romantic hills of Casola d'Elsa.  These summer courses awakened her creativity while still connected with reality, became more and more imbued with magic and emotions.  The work of these years, including portrait commissions from some prominent Milanse families, are but striking examples of Kathleen's evolution:  The "visual" was slowly transforming into "vision."

In 1997 the family moved to the United States where Kathleen's paintings and drawings took another twist toward an even more unbridled and emotionally reactive representation of reality while still being attracted by the human frailties.  Influenced by a group  of expressionists from Philadephia, she began experimenting with a totaly new style, one that produced a series of daring abstract charcoals, thus bringing her artistic experience into yet another uncharted territory. 
 
If ther impressionist paintings are "impressions of the eye", Kathleen's are more impressions of the heart.