Having previously worked in textile design and printing, Kate’s vibrant still life paintings of everyday objects celebrate domestic rituals.

She was inspired to paint again having cleared out her father’s attic. “My father was the painter, a good one, and l wanted to pursue my own creative path. Then l found my old painting again and what l saw this time was something deeply familiar on several levels.

For many years l’ve used pots and domestic objects as subjects for silkscreen prints on textiles and paper and l was overwhelmed by the relationship between the imagery I’m fascinated with now and a piece of work l’d done over 25 years ago - A still Life, painted in my Foundation year at Art School - and all the familiar objects from home. There was also a different relationship with my father’s painting that now means more to me. It made me want to paint again. To enrich my relationship with him through painting. He is still teaching me.”

EDUCATION

• 1986 Degree in Visual & Performing Arts, Brighton

• 1994 Red Herring Studios

• 2008 Phoenix Brighton
  

work

“I have enjoyed working in a variety of media as an artist and maker, including: costume and set design, textiles, youth projects, residencies, teaching, and community events. I currently teach textiles and printmaking part time, and produce paintings and prints in my Brighton studio. I have shown my work in local exhibitions and host an Artists Open House every year.”

Exhibitions

• 2019 Winter Show at Cameron Contemporary Art

• 2019 Fresh Paint, a 6 person show of new artists at Cameron Contemporary Art

• July 2019 The Colour of Summer at Cameron Contemporary Art