In 2012 I made a decision to draw something every day, even if I didn't feel like it. In my 20s I was in a touring band and spent most of my time on the road travelling from place to place or at airports taking photos of the architecture. It felt romantic to be at a service station in between cities at 3am, or getting up at 4am in a hotel room in Barcelona to travel to the airport for a show the next day. The most vivd memories are the mundane ones. The colour of the sky at Munich airport at 5am, a sculptural motorway bridge on the M1, the skyline of Sheffield twinkling over the hills, the Sugar Beet Factory looking over my home town of Bury St Edmunds at dusk, knowing I was home. I started to paint these memories and that slowly developed into a style reminiscent of screen printing and pop art.
In 2016 I met my husband Paul and moved to Leicester. I moved from a studio above a band practice space in Suffolk to Two Queens Studios in the heart of the cultural quarter in Leicester which is where I work from today. All these fine art prints start life as photographs from which I make the original paintings. I still spend a lot of time exploring cities on foot and taking photographs to work from. I am particularly drawn to unloved places like flyovers and crumbling concrete car parks and I love a bit of Brutalist architecture. The paintings take around 1 - 4 weeks to make depending on the size as the process is quite laborious. After scaling up a drawing from a sketch I mask off areas using frogtape and paint colours in layers. The process is fairly similar to screen printing.
Once the paintings are complete I then take photographs and have high quality Giclee Prints made on 308gsm Hannemühle Photorag paper. These are expensive to have made and are fine art quality which is why the prices are a little higher than average on Etsy.
I take on commission paintings regularly so please feel free to get in touch if you have a love for the mundane. I'll paint your house too if you want.

Kate