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Passion for creating New Zealand art
After gaining a BCApS from Otago in Clothing, Textiles and Design, Kate’s working life led her elsewhere until she was in her late thirties and decided to follow her passion of painting – now Kate is creating stunning New Zealand inspired artworks.
Influenced by the environment
When people visit the Wairarapa region, they discover big skies, banks of towering clouds and dramatic windswept landscapes. Kate grew up here and many of her landscape paintings are influenced by a childhood of vast spaces, icy southerlies, gnarled trees, derelict buildings, and gritty coastlines like Cape Palliser.
Kate has always been fascinated with the stories behind the land, and draws inspiration for her work from this. The buildings that remain are testament to people succeeding (or failing) in those landscapes. Kate describes her paintings as “simplified realism. They’re based on the view I know. People see my paintings and feel a comforting recognition with that view. It might be of a different place, but they recognise the spirit of that landscape”.
Kate's regular road trips through New Zealand provide inspiration for her back-road landscape paintings - and the stories to be told.
‘Kate has a simple direct style that is utterly unique and will
be instantly recognisableas her fame grows. Her rich use of colour leaps at you. This is the raw New Zealand that I have travelled and filmed in…. I will watch for her progress.’
Paddy Hughes - Film writer and director, and poet
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Guarantee of quality
Kate uses quality canvases and paints and to produce a works of exceptional quality and finish. The materials are chosen and worked to ensure that the produced art work will last.
Works are built up in layers of colours, in a technique that Kate has developed over many years. The result is a fresh distinctive style using a strong colour palette.
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