Artists

Kate has explored the mother and child theme over the past twenty five years at various stages of her life, making primitive, charged and evocative images from drawings and her imagination.  Recently she has found that the dominant mother-figure has largely vanished, the children have become more substantial and seem to be making a bid for freedom.

These pictures are worlds apart from her more observational documentation of rural workers in Somerset.  She made a three year study of the willow growers on the Somerset Levels and is now spending time with local sheep farmers, documentaing in drawings and paintings the sheep farming year.  However in both her imaginative work and her literal observational paintings of farming life, the figures and landscapes are fused together to be inseparable.

Kate is an RWA Academician and has a degree in the History of Art, Post Graduate Teaching Certificate & Art Teacher's Diploma, and Post-Graduate Fine Art Diploma.

She is a qualified art teacher who has mixed her professional life as a painter with educational work in schools and community art projects with all age groups and abilities.