Katie is a pastel artist. Her work explores the textures and moments of domestic still life, tangled with nostalgia.
Katie is enticed by the complexity of who we are as beings and the world that exists (whether in reality, our memories or our dreams) around us. She wants to stretch her arms through the nostalgia, the hopes, the failings, the things that were or might have been, and reflect that in her work. She wants to tell a story, the landscape of our memory and nostalgia, real or imagined, mingles with our everyday interactions. We form our past, our present, our future selves in the tapestry of our minds.
She finds pastels evoke a velvet richness, which compliments the tactile nature of Katie's subject matter. Colour is incredibly important in conveying mood and emotion in her work, and the pastel pigments give the vivacity and clarity she needs.