Katie collects vintage cloth bound books which she uses as both her palette and canvas. She is led by shapes and colours, often starting with one idea which evolves into something else along the way.
Katie likes this fluidity, for her it is all about colour balance, positive and negative spaces and creating a sense of tranquillity.
She slices, cuts, rips and skins these beautifully marked and faded cloths from their boards; this is all part of the making process, deconstructing to then reconstruct into something new.
Katie formerly trained as a textile designer and has for many years run a successful knitwear business. Her main strength has always been her use of colour and her fascination and love of colour has more recently taken her down the Art path.
She lives in the Lake District and wild swims at sunrise throughout the year; the quietness and calmness of these swims, along with the changes in weather and seasons, inform her work as does the ageing process within more urban environments; she likes to juxtapose the beauty of urban decay and dereliction with the purity of nature.