Kate is inspired by the landscape of the Welsh borders where she lives. Her paintings do not set out to be precise representations, but a response to the changing rhythm and colours of the landscape.

Kate draws outside with charcoal, pencil and pastel, then back in the studio, she paints in oils, sometimes adding blocks of flat colour collage or newsprint to a composition. She also paints still life and flowers from her garden. 

Before becoming a full time painter Kate was a journalist and worked on Vogue before moving to Wales after her marriage. Gradually the painting became all- consuming and she began selling her work in the gallery on Tresco where the family went every summer with their 3 children . 

“I’ve lived in mid Wales for over 35 years and know the surroundings seep into my subconscious when I paint. There seems to be a deep-rooted composition in my memory that invariably emerges in a painting.  I often walk to a favourite place to revisit a group of buildings or the steep dip of skyline over the hills; I unashamedly edit the view to make a picture work, taking out anything that confuses the composition. I love emptiness in a landscape, where the space is dissected by a grid of hedges or vertical marks of buildings, telegraph poles, church spires.”