Come see me and my art at York River Art Market this year. I will be selling Prints, cards and original drawings and paintings.
YRAM Saturday 16th August
Surprise view
Recently, I had the privilege of returning to the Lake District for some plein air painting; once again, the beauty captivated me, drawing me into every detail. This time, I visited Keswick, where I painted two images, one of which was from Surprise View, which offered a spectacular view overlooking Derwent Water towards Keswick, with Skiddaw Mountain (the third highest in England) to the right. The morning was sunny, and the lake was still. Using oil paints on a 30×40 cm canvas, the painting took three days to complete outdoors, with an additional day for touch-ups back in the studio.
Painting in the lake district
I love plein air painting; I feel able to be fully absorbed into nature and the creative process that’s hard to replicate elsewhere. I don’t often get to finish a painting, but getting the ‘true’ colors I see onto canvas gives me a good base for finishing the painting off another day in my studio.
This time I was in wasdale head in the lakes, looking over west water, towards great gable and scafell pike. I had been hear for 3 day but it rained so much i wasn’t able to paint, today i managed to get a morning of sun to capture the sky, great gable and scafell Pike.
EDAS Best in show
Displaying three of of painting ‘maple leaf’ ‘silver birch’ and ‘river ouse over lendal bridge’ at the Easingwold and District Art Society show in October 2024, my painting ‘River ouse from lendal bridge’ was voted best in show.
York river art market YRAM 2024
My second year taking part in YRAM, beautiful sunny day which was perfect for displaying and selling my most recent drawings, paintings, prints and cards, i even got to meet the mayor!
I’ll be back with more new work in August 2025.
Re-focusing
I often see the world in a very detailed close up way, noticing the detail of something first and foremost, sometimes I don’t even think to look at the object as a whole. For years I have fought this natural response I have to my environment and tried very hard to create painting other people want or say they would like. I have struggled to try see things as others like to see them rather than how I naturally view the world. I have now decided to embrace my difference and share with everyone what I see when I look at something. Continuing to use nature as my main inspiration. Here is the first painting I the new line of work…
New Direction
Lion of Judah 
Out of darkness into his marvelous light
Most recently I have been experimenting trying to find a fresh new and more emotive direction for my art. I experimented with may different mediums, jet I kept coming back to oils. the vibrant yet earthy nature of oils had a pull on me that I couldn’t ignore. however, I still wanted to move away from photo realism and stride towards something more ‘alive’, aiming to bring power and emotion into my art, something I have always struggled to achieve.
I began by thinking about what is important to me, what do I care about, what is the centre of my life, the things that bring up the most emotion. This is what led me to the subject for my new series of paintings
‘Inspired by God – Painted by Katie’
I started first with a rough textured base colour, trying to shape the image I wanted to with out the interference or distraction of colour. After this layer dried I then began adding on paint, using a limited colour pallet, scraping or rubbing the paint off and adding more. I felt this every interactive way of painting, enabled me, to become immersed in the image. I had started of with some images for guidance, however half way though I put the photos away and just focused all my attention on my painting, this was really important in enabling me to move away from my automatic reaction to copy exactly. It freed me to experiment, push boundaries and use other senses to guide me as I worked.
Keep Watching this space of updates of my lasts creations
Piccadilly Art market
First day at the Piccadilly art market in york…back again on 4th August, will be displaying different peaces of art, so even if you’ve been before do come visit again. More prints, paintings & cards available for sale.
From vandal to art
On the left is the painting that was vandalised during a party at my stuedio… Few months on and Lots of paint later, on the right is the finished peace.
This is an view from the walk along the flood defence next to the river between rawclif and york town center.
Edinburgh wollen Mill exhibition
Come view my art work at the Edinburgh Wollen Mill exhibtion in Harrogate.
Were i am currently displaying four peaces of my artwork.
