Kathleen Harrington was born and educated in New York City. She is a signature member of the National Collage Society.  

Kathleen has lived in many cities in the United States and painted and exhibited her work in all of them. She has studied oil painting while living in Atlanta and egg tempera while in Buffalo. With her move to Ohio in 1981 she focused on watercolor, mixed media and collage. 

Over the years she has been shown her work and been awarded prizes locally, at the Cuyahoga Valley Art Center, the Solon Fine Art Show, the National Collage Annual Juried Show, and in Akron, Willoughby, Beachwood, Cleveland and her home town of Hudson. She is currently showing pieces in New Zealand and in France. She also has her work on display on the internet in both shows and in a virtual museum.  

Kathleen has had pieces selected for publication in the Somerset Studio magazine Gallery. She is a member and a former officer of the Hudson Society of Artists.