Kathryn's practice explores personal and emotive themes such as loss, shame, connection, joy, and the female experience. She is captivated by patterns, finding them to embody the essence of existence, their hypnotic and seductive qualities contributing to her artistic narrative. Her work integrates human and ambiguous figures through line and symbol, blending them with tangible materials like wooden sticks or alphabet letters.
Her pieces often carry an iconoclastic tone, featuring a 'surrendered' central figure and senseless alphabet forms that symbolise the limitations of language in capturing the palpable 'otherness' of life. Painting provides her a space to explore and express complex memories, conflicts, and emotions that she hopes will resonate with viewers.
Kathryn works from her home studio, play with ideas through sketchbooks and drawings before transitioning to the final paintings. Her results often surprise her, feeling like strangers, which she sees as a crucial part of her creative process. She primarily uses paper, wood panels, and raw canvas, working with a subdued palette of yellows, blues, greens, and pinks. Her style combines painterly grounds and linear forms with hard-edged, formal areas.
Education
1991-1993
Slade School of Art
Postgraduate Fine Art, Painting. Higher Diploma, Bursary student
1988-1991
Wimbledon School of Art
BA (hons) Degree in Fine Art, Painting, First Class
1987-1988
Reigate School of Art
Foundation, with distinction
Groups and Exhibitions
March 2022
Kingston Museum
'Climate KAOS'
A group exhibition
October 2021
Lancaster Music Festival
'The Sounds that Paintings Make'
A collaboration with Sandra Beccarelli
2019
Member of KAOS
Kingston Artist Open Studios
2012
Gallery 53A
Spaces, Marks & Meditation
KAOS
Open studios, Kingston
After graduation:
Germinations 5, Ludvig Forum
Aachen, Germany & Budapest, Hungary
Group show, selected European young artists
