Kate Walters
What they'll never see: Drawings for my parents
April 21st to May 1st 2009
Kate Walters - an awarded artist who was shortlisted for, and currently has work touring with, the Jerwood Drawing Prize - brings her evocative drawings to the Surface Gallery. A review of the exhibition can be found here http://www.leftlion.co.uk/articles.cfm/id/2520.
My drawings in watercolour explore my feelings around birth, mothering, consciousness, and what is hidden.
My drawings explore areas of our lives which we all share, but which are, or tend to be, somewhat buried, repressed or unknown.
When I begin a drawing it is my intention to have no intention, and to allow meaning to arrive through the long process of working and watching.
When I am working my intention is to have no intention. I relax my feelings around the ego with its attendant desires and fantasies. Whatever wishes to emerge through my hands and the fluid medium is free to arrive.
Each day when I work I step into the discipline of ‘deliberate practice’ – where I push myself beyond myself; it is not a comfortable procedure, I never know what will emerge to challenge me and my preconceptions, on the paper, in front of me.
I am not sure why I limit my colour to shades of red.
For the past five years it has been the only colour I reach for.
Kate Walters
http://katewalters.co.uk/
Events
As part of 'Kate Walters', we held several events over the course of the exhibition. See below for further details.
Private View and Artist’s talk - On the 20th April A talk by the artist followed by a chance to view the work of Kate Walters with a glass of red wine.
Essays
Kate Walters
An explosion of red; emotive, delicate and powerful. Style and brush marks, explorative, soft and harsh, figurative and ethereal. Seemingly splashes of colour against lines of hidden detail. Faces, figures, actions, motions…