ARTIST'S STATEMENT

An art-loving friend has kindly consolidated my art-making thoughts thus:

“Kate's artwork is very energetic. Her work is created with various painting/drawing techniques & media, and very little - if any - starting plan; it builds on itself as she works. Kate's goal is to engage viewers by showing them imaginary landscapes, dreamscapes to evoke emotion and memories."
 

The Full Story is . . .

    The power of art, for me, comes from its energy, its motion, the visual tension created by form and color.  The colors and marks I use build on each other, creating the energy.  It's a feeding, rolling kind of thing, combining painting and drawing.

     My work expresses and reshapes all I see and hear, through color and line, ending up with imagery sometimes meditative or ethereal, sometimes bold and striking.  Even though I'm informed by everything I do or see, those things are unlikely to show up in my art as I saw them originally, as a leaf in my driveway, building along the highway or any particular, specific trees.

     I'm an explorer of art materials as well as my physical surroundings; never met a crayon or paint or pen or brush or flat clear surface that hasn't called to me somehow - the "mixed media" designation seems made for me!

     Mostly, I want my art to engage.  Art wants to engage people.  A gentleman at a show once asked me what a painting was, what I had in mind when I was making it; I asked him what he saw in it.  And he said "You know, this reminds me of a spot on the lane by my grandmother's house."  He continued, describing to me a place I'd never been, but somehow my work had brought that scene back to him.  What could be better than that?!!