November 11th, 2013

November 11th, 2013

“October 2013 – Dizzy Autumn.”

Acrylic on Canvas, 36” x 24”

Everything pops and vibrates. Colours push and pull. Lines shake and remain still. After-image effects and star bursts…..eyes closed or open. Light in the dark; faintly pressing and spreading out. Sparks and static and little motes of visible, invisible electricity. Too bright and nearly tactile…this is the world that I see and this is how I see it. Always too much but never enough.

 -Kate

Bonus: A wonderfully generous write-up by my friend Karen Anderson.

And a note: I found out awhile ago that this painting, selected for the 2012 Timeraiser, was damaged and lost during the flood this summer (all the pieces chosen that year were in storage downtown until the auction winners completed their pledges).

Rest in peace old friend! 🙁

September 2nd, 2013

September 2nd, 2013

“Summer 2013 – Flood; Consume.”

Acrylic on Canvas, 36” x 24”

Remember the Flood?

June. This painting started with a pleasant, meandering river flowing beside a line of trees…a week or two later we were drowning under a seething, roiling mass of angry brown water; and there was no way this painting wasn’t going to be affected by such an incredible sight.

 And here’s what you don’t see when viewing the canvases online...

 -Kate

June 22nd, 2013

June 22nd, 2013

“May 2013 – On the Verge…”

Acrylic on Canvas, 36” x 24”

 This painting has been all but finished for awhile..and then finished for awhile longer yet. So it belongs more to early-mid spring and May than the beginning of summer. And it is decidedly flood free…

 -Kate

 

 

 

April 27th, 2013

April 27th, 2013

“April 2013 – Languid and Brisk”

Acrylic on Paper, 38.75” x 21.25”

 Warm sunlight. Cold biting winds. Golden brown grasses showing green. Snow-capped mountains… Spring! And another painting I am truly pleased with… and likely my last “work on paper” (for now).

 -Kate

March 16th, 2013

March 16th, 2013

“January 2013 – New Year”

Acrylic on Paper, 29.5” x 14.7”

 

 

“February 2013 – Hum and Hush”

Acrylic on Canvas, 36” x 24”

 

 Two paintings… worked on at about the same time and now finally finished.

 

“Hum and Hush” took a lot of work to complete. It is a painting…a picture I had in my mind…a reflection of that time of day in winter when the sun has set and the sky is that certain shade of blue. When the lights of the city  begin to click and pop across the wide and darkening spaces.

I am so very, very pleased with it. And never more have I realized how much I need to push for what I feel is “perfection” in my paintings. Of course it’s subjective, it’s entirely up to me. And while I won’t know what perfection is in a piece until I achieve it, what matters most is that I know it can be achieved. Nothing else will satisfy, nothing else will do…

 

“New Year” is…just an image of a feeling. Like all my work it is an echo of experiences and memories. Pictures behind pictures.The sun sets, a year ends and a new one stretches out…

 -Kate