Katie is a collage artist with a background in textiles. She works with the cloth from discarded or damaged hard back books from local charity shops, uses the cloth as both her palette and canvas. The array of colours is infinite, many of them faded and marked through time…they all have a former life and story.
She slices, cuts and rips these beautifully aged and faded cloths from their boards; this is all part of the making process…deconstructing to reconstruct into something new.
She adds no colour to the covers, but sometimes experiments with mark making and removing colour to create pattern and texture.
Katie spends hours arranging and rearranging shapes and colours, often starting with one idea which evolves into something else along the way. She likes this fluidity - for her it is all about colour balance, positive and negative spaces and creating a sense of peace.
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, informs some of her work. Katie is also influenced by more urban environments and explores the juxtaposition of urban decay with the purity of nature within her works.
Katie is a collage artist with a background in textiles. She works with the cloth from discarded or damaged hard back books from local charity shops, uses the cloth as both her palette and canvas. The array of colours is infinite, many of them faded and marked through time…they all have a former life and story. She slices, cuts and rips these beautifully aged and faded cloths f... Read Full Bio
