Process and inspiration

Kate’s practice explores memory, atmosphere, and the emotional resonance of landscape through layered acrylic painting. Working intuitively, she allows each work to develop its own internal logic through accumulation, erasure, and response.

Inspired by fleeting experiences of light, weather, and place, Kate aims to evoke the instability and movement of memory itself. Textured, gestural surfaces suggest landscapes in transition rather than direct representations, capturing moments that feel both familiar and intangible. Colour and form emerge instinctively, guided by organic structures and asymmetrical balance, where tension becomes a means of creating stability.

Central to Kate’s practice is an interest in natural systems and the physical behaviour of paint. Areas are repeatedly layered, removed, and reworked so that presence and absence coexist within the same surface. These processes create traces that resemble sedimentation, erosion, or weathering, embedding a sense of time within the work.

Kate’s paintings are informed by a longstanding connection to the natural environment and a fascination with how landscapes hold emotional and atmospheric memory. Through abstraction, she investigates how recollection shifts over time, creating works that are contemplative, immersive, and open-ended.