ABOUT HEIRLOOM ART STUDIO

HEIRLOOM ART STUDIO was established in Ontario, Canada, in 1980 where it excelled in producing award-winning photographic restorations and outstanding fine art paintings and portraits. The company was moved to the Smoky Mountains of East Tennessee in 1997, where custom handmade specialty goods were offered in a brick and mortar gallery and Fine Art Classes were given to groups and private students. In 2022, an 1840 downtown Manor House was purchased in Madison, Indiana, that had been a funeral home since 1923. The twenty-one room building, equal distances from Indianapolis, Cincinnati, and Louisville, Kentucky, is being restored to its historic glory. Heirloom Art Studio-Madison opened to the public in Spring 2023 offering award-winning paintings, portraits, and specialty handmade gifts as well as photographic and fine art restoration, Art Classes, Workshops, Demonstrations, and private Art instruction. Shop, take a class, commission your own one of a kind "Spirit Painting" and enjoy a unique opportunity to visit an exceptional tourist destination that time forgot and view the interior of an historic building on the National Registry of Historic Places.

KATHRYN RUTHERFORD - BAE, CRA, Ph.AL, Cr.Photog, M. Artist
Kathryn Rutherford is an award winning, internationally known fine artist, and photographic and fine art restoration specialist who dedicated thirty-eight years to Education, teaching High School and College Fine Art, English, and Special Education in various locations throughout Canada and the U.S. She holds teaching licenses from Canada, Arizona, and Tennessee. As owner of Heirloom Art Studio, her talents are recognized by such companies as Eastman Kodak, Fujifilm Corporation, Epcot Center, American Kennel Club, Golden Retriever Club of America, and the East Tennessee Historical Society. In addition to awards of excellence for her original fine art paintings and portraits, Kathryn holds multiple awards and degrees from the Professional Photographers of Ontario, Canada, Michigan, Wisconsin, Tennessee, and America as well as credentials in Music, Theater and Costume Design. She has shipped unique paintings and high quality photographic and fine art restorations to seventeen countries throughout the world and received the Masterpiece Award, in 1999, for inventing the photographic process shown below that restores blackened tintypes. This award, presented for photographic excellence, is the highest honour given to a professional photographer by the Fujifilm Corporation and has never again been presented to an Artisan. As one of only three artisans chosen from around the world to represent the photographic restoration industry, her restoration work hung at Epcot Center, Florida, in a special exhibit honouring the 150th anniversary of the invention of the Daguerreotype-the first photograpic image. Kathryn invites you to visit her Studio and Gallery or sign up for any of her Art Classes or classes offered by other teachers at Heirloom Art Studio. For more detailed information on Kathryn click this link.