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All is calm
Surprisingly calm actually. The last paintings are done and now with the framer. I’m delivering the work to the gallery tomorrow, and the exhibition opens on Saturday morning at 10am. I’m stitching prints today. The children are all in school, and my lovely Mum is in the kitchen making soup. I’m sure things aren’t usually […]
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Less than two weeks to go…
The studio has been a hive of industry of late. But occasionally I’ve looked up from my desk. This is currently the view through the skylight. How lucky am I? Less than 2 weeks to go now til ‘Big Skies & Old Stones’ opens at Chantry House Gallery in Ripley. I’ve been working on pieces […]
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Big Skies & Old Stones
Somehow it’s April. I don’t know where March went, but suddenly it’s April and I have a new exhibition opening next month at Chantry House Gallery. The exhibition opens on Saturday May 20th at 10cm I’m very excited. Last year I spent so long writing the Lost Houses book that very little real painting went […]
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The Lost Houses at Cliffe Castle
I am very excited that Cliffe Castle Museum in Keighley is showing my Lost Houses exhibition in the upstairs gallery. It opens on Saturday February 11th and will be up til April 23rd. I’m going to be in the museum all day on February 11th and April 1st. My kids love Cliffe Castle. The building […]
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Christmas and Spring!
I’ve been trying to strike a balance in the studio this month. Mondays and Wednesdays are supposed to be precious, uninterrupted (loud music and no children) PAINTING DAYS! Back in the summer I had a few days on my own in North Yorksire, drawing and planning for an exhibition at Chantry House Gallery this coming […]
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Awaiting the book…
I’ve been very quiet of late. And I’ve been spending more time in front of a computer screen, and less playing with the inks and beautiful new brushes Rosemary & Co that I bought at Art in Action at the start of the summer. I’ve been busy with the book…. Don’t get excited. This is […]
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The Lost Houses Book!
Please excuse me if I’m repeating myself. For a brief time I have to shout loudly about the fact that I am doing this! And I have just launched a crowd-funding campaign on Kickstarter. Please have a look here. And to put you in the mood, make a cup of tea and watch this lovely […]
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Shiney New Studio
When we first moved in to our house, 6 months pregnant with twins and feeling a little green, It suddenly dawned on me what a huge project it was. It’s the kind of house where you strip the woodchip only to find that it’s the only thing holding plaster on the walls. You try to […]
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The Bronte Parsonage
I’ve been playing these last couple of weeks. I shouldn’t have been – there are things that I should have been doing instead. But i wanted to work this idea through… I met with the retail manager up at The Bronte Parsonage in Haworth a few months ago and we talked about my producing some […]
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Lost Houses Exhibition Opening Party…
On Friday January 22nd, we launched the Lost Houses Exhibition at Bankfield Museum. I’d seen this photo some time ago, of the last formal function to be held at Castle Carr (the largest of the lost houses in the exhibition). It is a photo of Ronald Murgatroyd’s 21st Birthday party, taken in the early 1930s. […]
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…
