Painting

Existing in the gap between knowledge and instinct the artists emotional, analytical and physical responses to paint capture experiences that cannot be shaped or described by words alone. Lingering in a world that’s is both seeing and feeling the paintings imbue a sense of place, emotion and stilled moments in time and seek to remind us of something familiar, yet unplaceable.

Working in acrylic and ink with abstract imagery the work is material led and is as accidental and playful as it is constructed and considered.  The canvas is dripped over, and splattered with layers of colour and texture building up over time; sharp and soft edges butt up together, a mass of pattern, marks and lines sit amongst unpopulated space. Ideas, colours, gestures repeat and jump from painting to painting. A natural colourist Kate makes pastels wrestle with bright popping neon that sit alongside muddy greys and murky olive greens. Washed over thinned out glazes in opposition to thick opaque glossy marks that are applied using whatever is to hand a lightness of touch prevails.

Meaning shifts around in an abstract space that is in constant flux, these are the things we know; we half see, feel at the edges or can’t quite explain. More recent works trace the voids, space, and places of memory and loss and its in this process of imagining the effects of time and motion inside and outside the body, the work sits somewhere between the two.  A world of broken, hazy lines and shapes that rise and fall trying to locate a route between the two spaces that allows us to exist in both the intimate and infinite.