Kate Lycett

I finished this painting today. The house was called Harrowins and it stood in Queensbury for about 80 years. No one knows exactly where it stood, or exactly when it was demolished. Only that no one, not even the golf club wanted it in the end!   This is the last one of  14 large […]

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Maybe it’s a bit soon to start talking about after Christmas, but I can’t think of much else at the moment. I’ve booked the Jazz trio, Bought the Champagne and I’ve been trying on vintage dresses! I’m planning something a bit different for the opening of this next exhibition, the exhibition being very different to […]

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It’s still November, It’s still November, It’s still November… I can’t be in denial after Tuesday though. We will be in December, which means Three Big Things!: 1) I have a children’s birthday party to organise (and though i try, I am rubbish at decorating cakes (though the thieving fingers would suggest that my icing […]

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My twins start big school tomorrow. It’s going to be quite a change – the first time in nearly 9 years that I haven’t had a child at home. School days aren’t long, and the school isn’t far. But I  i’ll miss them. One of the many lovely things about having twins is the laughing. […]

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It’s that time of year again when I have to tidy all the children’s toys and art work away, and pretend that I live in an immaculate house! I am opening up my house as a small gallery for the three days of Hebden Bridge Open Studios on July 3rd, 4th and 5th, from 11am […]

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Now that ‘Water & Light’ is almost finished at Heart Gallery, I have been getting on with my Lost Houses project. There’s a separate blog about this here. I’ll just post the paintings here. But the research and the stories in detail will be on the blog. So far I have New Cragg Hall, an […]

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Well I have to confess that Thursday evening stills feels a bit surreal!  With my best dress on i walked down to Heart Gallery to find a steadily growing queue outside.            We’d hung the exhibition the evening before, so i knew it all fitted in beautifully! Once the doors were opened , everyone […]

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This time next week I will be wearing my best dress and proper grown up shoes (and trying hard to cover the scraped up knee from where I tripped over a rock running up Stoodley Pike yesterday!) and standing nervously in a room full of pictures. It’s a small room, and a years worth of […]

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That’s it! The countdown style clock is ticking in my head. Only 4 weeks to go til the preview of ‘Water & Light’ at Heart gallery in Hebden Bridge. I took the finished work to the framers yesterday. The delivery included two new Printer’s Trays. This one is of trees: and this one is on […]

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I’ve finished the bigger, scarier pieces for the March exhibition now, so this is my reward… I am basing this one all on tree studies, but there will be a second one in the exhibition, all based on allotments! More pictures of that soon. I do now have the invitations for the exhibition preview on […]

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