BIOGRAPHY
Born in Queensland , Kathryn studied Visual Communication and Graphic Design at the Brisbane College of Art. It was here she also developed a keen interest in photography and film making and her short films gained her entry to the Australian Film and Television School in 1980. She spent the next 15 years working in the film and television industry in Australia and Asia.
Kathryn exhibited her paintings in many group shows in Sydney and the Northern Beaches for 10 years before relocating to the Coffs Harbour region. She has gone on to win many regional art awards as well as a finalist over multiple years in the EMSLA Still Life Prize, the Herfort Portrait Prize and continues to have solo and group shows throughout the region. Her work has been collected across Australia and Internationally.
STATEMENT
Kathryn’s connection with the Film Industry influences her story telling and the drama she imbues in her work to this day. She works across multiple genres in her painting to create her other worldly images where both order and chaos reside. Her main body of work heavily influenced by the Baroque/Rococo Periods uses these dramatic and asthetically pleasing scenes as a springboard to reimagine worlds where man is in harmony with both himself and the landscape. Treading that fine line symbolically of dystopian and Utopian idealism.
From her big florals to figurative and still life, the landscape is always in the background, reinforcing the simpatico relationship as paramount to our identity and spiritual evolution.
Kathryn likes to work mainly in oils and mixed media on canvas and board. Her main aspirations with all her work is to capture light, transparency of layers and energy within the subject.
She is at home with painting Figurative, portrait commissions and still life and its her special love of plein air, being ensconced in the landscape and the challenges of weather and ever changing light to work fast keeps her work fresh and honest.
She is currently represented by Art Lovers Australia, Bluethumb Art and Saatchi Art.
Exhibitions
1996-2007 Group exhibitions Sydney's Northern Beaches
2008 Solo Exhibition - Liminal Gallery, Coffs Harbour
2009 Winner Coffs Harbour Portrait Prize, Bunker Gallery
2010 Winner Lilly Pilly Art Prize, Coffs harbour
011 - 2012 Shared Exhibitions Lake Russell Gallery, Coffs Harbour
2013 Exhibited Butcher's Hook Gallery Paddington, Sydney
Finalist in EMSLA Art prize, Coffs Harbour Regional Gallery
2014 Finalist work EMSLA exhibited in Parliament House, Sydney
Solo Exhibition "Rivers Rocks Lakes" Nexus Gallery Bellingen
2014 - 2016 Invited artist, Holy Family Art Show, Lindfield
2014 Shared exhibition, Kenthurst Gallery, Sydney
2015 Shared women's exhibition, "Girls Night out" Art Factory,Coffs Harbour
Winner Sawtell Art Prize, Sawtell Gallery NSW
Finalist EMSLA Art Prize, Coffs Harbour Regional Gallery
2016 Invited artist, Lindfield Art Show, Sydney
Grand Champion Award, Sawtell Art Prize
Finalist EMSLA Art Prize, Coffs Harbour Regional Gallery
2017 Solo Exhibition, “Eclectic Collection” - Nexus Gallery, Bellingen
Finalist EMSLA National Still Life Art Prize, Contemporary Project Space, Wollongong
2018 Winner Sawtell Art Prize
Exhibition “Shine” - The Art Space, Urunga
Finalist National Still Life Art Prize, Wollongong
2019 Winner Oil section Sawtell Art Prize
Exhibition, “Buoyancy” - The Art SPace, Urunga
Finalist EMSLA National Still Life Art Prize, Woolongong
Exhibition, TBC Gallery - Gold Coast
FEATURED ARTIST ON TV SERIES, THE BLOCK.
2021 Winner Sawtell Art Prize in Mixed Media
2023 Winner Sawtell Art Prize in Oil section
2024 Exhibition - “Essence of Place” Nexus Gallery Bellingen
Winner Sawtell Art Prize - Watercolour
Winner Woolgoolga Art Prize - Figurative