About Kate

Kate was born in Wimbledon, England, in 1976. Most of her childhood years were spent in New England, though her formative years of adolescence found her overseas again in London, England. Each summer of her life has brought her to a rural New England lake.

Kate learned about art from a young age with her grandmother, a painter, printmaker, and sculptor; she later studied at Silvermine Arts Center in New Cannan, CT. As an adult, she studied at California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland, CA, and Academy of Art University in San Francisco, CA.

For the past three years Kate has been deepening her study and practice of Nonviolent Communication and is curious to see how this orientation shows up in her painting practice.

She lives in Montpelier, VT with her two children and wee dog and works out of her home studio.

Statement:

I am interested in how the formal aspects of a painting can express feeling, build meaning, and support or disrupt narrative. Working from nudges I experience, find, or make, I investigate arrangements of space, surface, color, line, etc., to discover the shape of my perceptions. Ultimately I uncover more questions that lead me from one painting to the next.

These inquiries are passages across the work, the mark making additive or subtractive as I apply paint or scrape it away. My working process is a part of the finished piece left as traces of this problem-solving. This meeting of past and present excites me.

I am interested in the visual record of these investigations, the decisions made, reconsidered, and the new decisions made along the way. I enjoy that the making of a painting is visibly part of the finished painting—the experience of painting embedded in the object of the painting itself. This working out, being visible in moments on a painting, delights me. For me, it resonates with the juiciness of life and how we are impacted and, marked, touched by our experiences.