Hello! My name is Katherine Donovan, a.k.a, The Chocolate Painter.
I'm a classically trained realist painter that serendipitously stumbled into the world of chocolate after graduating art college. I began working at a chocolate boutique and it was there I discovered the potential of chocolate as an art form. I started painting on the backs of chocolate bars with artisanal cocoa butter. (It is a food safe colorant, derived from the cocao bean, that most chocolatiers use to create designs on their chocolates.) I became a Chocolatier Apprentice, studying under a Master Chocolatier who taught me the traditional way of hand tempering chocolate on a granite slab. I combine my love for chocolate and my art background to create mouth-watering works of art. Most notably, I had the pleasure of working with the Currier Museum of Art for the NH Magazine's Bride Spring Edition, to create a dessert piece of Edmund Tarbell's "Mercie Cutting Flowers" on an edible chocolate mosaic. I currently collaborate with La Cascade du Chocolat, in Exeter, N.H.
To see my personal chocolate works click here. You can find my work throughout the NH area with oil paintings in local galleries in New England.
I'm a classically trained realist painter that serendipitously stumbled into the world of chocolate after graduating art college. I began working at a chocolate boutique and it was there I discovered the potential of chocolate as an art form. I started painting on the backs of chocolate bars with artisanal cocoa butter. (It is a food safe colorant, derived from the cocao bean, that most chocolatiers use to create designs on their chocolates.) I became a Chocolatier Apprentice, studying under a Master Chocolatier who taught me the traditional way of hand tempering chocolate on a granite slab. I combine my love for chocolate and my art background to create mouth-watering works of art. Most notably, I had the pleasure of working with the Currier Museum of Art for the NH Magazine's Bride Spring Edition, to create a dessert piece of Edmund Tarbell's "Mercie Cutting Flowers" on an edible chocolate mosaic. I currently collaborate with La Cascade du Chocolat, in Exeter, N.H.
To see my personal chocolate works click here. You can find my work throughout the NH area with oil paintings in local galleries in New England.