Artist's Statement
Metanoia: A Change of Heart/Mind emerged during a season of profound transition for Nashville-area figurative painter Katelin Schutt. Created during and after study with master artist Steve Huston, the work carries change on multiple levels—technical, spiritual, and personal.
Over the two years following the birth of her second child, Schutt experienced upheaval that reordered her sense of identity and direction. Metanoia became both a testament and a mirror: a way to stay with the moment something shifts internally.
In these paintings, nude figures move through surreal, cave-like landscapes in states of ecstatic motion. The dancers aren’t posed for consumption; they are in becoming—embodying the instant when an inner turning occurs and life is irrevocably reoriented. Metanoia treats transformation as a lived process: entering the unknown, recognizing what is true, and emerging changed.