Independent Artist

Katie Windham is the woman behind the Love Katie Darling brand.  She was lucky enough to be born in New Orleans and grow up north of Lake Pontchartrain where she rode her bike and climbed trees and listened to the cicadas singing. Her first grade teacher introduced her to books (and some of the best illustrators) and that was that. Her high school art teacher would be the first person to truly awaken the creative spirit within her and show her a new way of living authentically.

Katie spent 4 lovely years in the School of the Arts at the College of Charleston a long time ago and has been thinking and dreaming about the magic of the city of Charleston ever since.  It was in Charleston that she found her voice as an artist and storyteller. 

After graduating from the College of Charleston, Katie landed in uptown New Orleans and fell in love with a scholar in the library at Tulane University. They are the lucky parents of several deeply good humans, and live a quiet life of laughter, creativity, and love.  

Today, you can find Katie standing on the corner of wonder and memory. It is here that she will hug you and welcome you into her studio like you are already friends and kindred spirits. Her studio in New Orleans is an archive of evidence of loving and being loved. She was a photographer before a painter and now she enjoys doing both daily, if possible. Endlessly inspired by words and music and the beauty in the honest cultivation of the ordinary, Katie chases inspiration trying to write it all down, paint it wildly, and humbly photograph it before the sun sets.  Katie loves her family, finding “hearts” from the universe, time traveling through music, words, and remembering who she has always been.