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Woodland Paths & Grand Days Out
My exhibition at Bankfield Museum opens in a few weeks time. I’ve been working on new landscapes this summer, inspired by long anticipated day trips out of the valley! We went to Malham Cove… To the bookshop at Saltaire, and then the park with a picnic. For Afternoon Tea at Betty’s in Ilkley on my […]
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Launching The Nightingale Project at Open Studios.
Tidying has begun in earnest. Hebden Bridge Open Studios is back! And I shall be opening from 11am – 5pm on July 9th, 10th and 11th. 88 artists are opening their studios to show you where they work and what they create! We so missed this last year – It’s great to be able to […]
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The Nightingale Project
I’ve been very quiet for a while – sorry about that. Now that the children are back at school I have a little more time and have been making the most of it. The Nightingale Project, which I started a year ago, has gained momentum in recent weeks. Many of the paintings were just scribbles […]
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This isn’t what I ordered…
Happy New Year everyone! I just wanted to write a little, positive post, to let you know how things stand in the studio at the moment. When i locked the studio door at the beginning of the school holidays, I was on a mission to make the very best of this Christmas. My family is […]
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TOFFEE TOWN! Opens this Saturday – September 26th
This morning I unwrapped all the Toffee Town paintings and spread them around the studio. I’m very excited that this exhibition is going to launch at last. Obviously somewhat apprehensive that the plug could be pulled between now and Saturday! I really hope not. They are here and framed. The prints are done. The cards […]
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Toffee Town! A date for your diary…
I’m so pleased to be able to finally announce the dates for my postponed ‘Toffee Town’ Exhibition, taking place at The Yorkshire Gallery in Halifax’s beautiful Piece Hall. This was originally meant to take place much earlier in the year but somewhat disasterous eye surgery pushed the date into May, and Covid delayed it after […]
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Open Studios – timed visits July 4th and 5th
Yesterday there were two announcements made about BIG things in my calendar: Art in the Pen in Skipton was officially cancelled and replaced by a virtual event. And Hebden Bridge Open Studios was further postponed to become another virtual event in October. I quite understand the need for both, but still… It’s all rather late […]
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Lock Down Diary…
I apologise in advance for this. It’s going to be a long and rambling post. This has kind of been a long and rambling time. Very odd…. That first week of Lock Down I was woken very early by a Nightingale. It was about 4.30 or so; before the other birds were singing. It wasn’t […]
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Introducing Toffee Town….
UPDATE: The exhibition will now launch on Saturday 26th September. Happy to announce a new solo exhibition at The Yorkshire Gallery in The Piece Hall, Halifax. ‘TOFFEE TOWN’ THE BEAUTIFUL BUILDINGS OF HALIFAX Saturday May 23rd – August 16th. I’m an Offcumden you know. I don’t count myself as a Southerner as Suffolk, where I […]
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Shibden Hall
I was thrilled last year when Shibden Hall commissioned a painting for their entrance hall. It’s rare for me to go there without the children, and therefore the pull of the boating lake or the playground. I went in August while they were staying with Granny down in Wiltshire. I played around with two compositions. […]
About Kate
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I grew up in Suffolk where the skies are vast and the land is low and flat. My grandad was an architect…
