Kathleen started painting at Jigalong in 1999. Kathleen completed a visual arts certificate at Pundulmurra TAFE campus in Port Hedland in 2000. Kathleen paints stories about her country including 'Wukartu' Honey Ants and stories from her mum and from family trips out bush. Kathleen experiments with different mediums, she is developing her own unique style. Kathleen is also a basket maker; she learned how to make baskets from her Aunt Dora Booth. She states:

'My Aunty asked me to help her start the centre ring of the basket one day and then I started to get the hang of making baskets myself. I started collecting Spinifex and sitting with my Aunty and working with her making baskets, then I started making my own.'

Kathleen sells her baskets and paintings at galleries in the Pilbara and has sent some paintings to Queensland.

"I have experience working with different mediums such as: felting, jewellery making, carving into wood for printing, using a pallet knife in my art and I'm learning from the senior artists from the other Martu communities, everybody has their own style in their art. I love the stories they tell me from back in their early days. The good relationship I have with the other artists and working with Martumili is based on respect. With the respect I have for elders and knowledge of two cultures Aboriginal and Non-Aboriginal, that makes me the perfect person to help the Martu people of the Western Desert region to understand how the art centre operates and other things that influence Martu people’s lives".

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