One of the many artists with studios at the Novato Arts Center, Kathleen Lack, is an award winning artist & teacher who works in oils and pastels, specializing in the portrait & the figure. She has garnered many family portrait commissions with up to 8 people in a single portrait. As with her portraits and figurative work, the body language and environment is informal, relaxed and fluid: kids playing at the beach, climbing trees, observing nature – people being themselves.