Kath’s fine art Practice

Kath’s hybrid fine art practice is currently developed by working on paper and canvas with materials, processes and techniques that span traditional fine art and printmaking. Before the works are finally printed as Giclee images, they are spliced with digital painting and hand embellishments.

She creates atmospheric ’scapes’ which are imaginings of places, spaces and phenomena drawn from mythological and fine art references and selects elements of narratives centred to themes of nature, sexuality, power and the supernatural. Recently she has been particularly inspired by narrative motifs in Margaret Atwood’s novella The Penelopiad.

From this interest she has developed an abstract visual language that is highly sensual, layered, spatial and colour rich.

Her images are dreamy and soft, with transparent layers of texture and hues but they also have a contradictory graphic edge. Some evoke a state of euphoria, others are more muted, dark or sombre. Shapes, forms, and textures recall patterns of light or those found in nature and water or bodily fluid.

Titles of the works are in Greek, referencing real or fictional locations, flora, and features of water or are alluding to the body and mythology where all things have symbolic significance.

The beauty of life is often found in moments of hyper-reality, the inexplicable or in those which are ephemeral. The shapes and colours in the works are hallucinogenic and immersive, recalling trance like states or sensual visual and physical experiences.

They offer us a way of picturing the intangibility and dynamic of our contemporary reveries and bodily lived experience whilst recalling timeless narrative and creative themes.