“Kathleen Elsey paints with a looser hand, building compositions
with dabs of paint and structures built from modules. She is a member of the
New Fauves and she brings her own fauvist stamp to outdoorsy work. Fauvist echoes sneak into her paintings, with brightly colored and slightly tilted views. But there’s a range of expressive values entailed in that asserted sense of personalized style.  Josef Woodard, Santa Barbara News Press