Who am I…?

Meet the Artist

In July last year, Kate had life-saving emergency appendicitis surgery where it was discovered, quite by chance, she has an extremely rare form of abdominal cancer. She has spent the past year recovering from the surgery and is slowly getting her creative life back. Please bear with her whilst she catches up with updating her website and regaining her life.

Kate wears many hats. As an artist, photographer, art tutor, curator, and model, she is constantly on the go, working with, and helping others. She is self-taught.

As an artist she works across a number of mediums including, but never limiting herself to:

- Painting - Acrylics, oils and watercolours

- Printmaking - Monoprinting and etching

- Cyanotypes

- Charcoal and graphite

- Inks

- Mixed media

As a photographer, Kate is an Associate of the Royal Photographic Society.

She has facilitated art workshops at the National Portrait Gallery, Chichester Cathedral, Chichester Community Development Trust, Outside In, and Pallant House Gallery, as well as being very experienced in facilitating digital workshops. She has been a speaker at numerous conferences nationally on the subject of Outsider Art, and what it means to be an artist with a disability.

Kate has exhibited in group and solo shows nationally including the National Portrait Gallery, Royal West of England Academy, Outside In, Pallant House Gallery and West Dean College. As part of the artist team of the Graylingwell Heritage Lottery Project, Kate worked with the community including the Graylingwell mental health wards. The final artworks produced can be seen at Graylingwell Chapel, Chichester.

She had great fun in creating props for Chichester Festival Theatre and the Weald & Downland Open Air Theatre productions.

Kate is an ambassador for two arts charities: Outside In (outsidein.org.uk) and Pallant House Gallery Community Programme (pallant.org.uk). In 2022, she was awarded a Queen’s Award for Volunteering (outsidein.org.uk).

Before going freelance, Kate worked in international advertising for Ogilvy & Mather, and then ran the Cass Sculpture Foundation commissioning and selling monumental sculpture by British artists.

Kate has been a judge for Open Sculpture Exhibition at Royal West of England Academy and Tight Modern, Brighton.

Her work is held in private collections internationally and in the archive of the National Portrait Gallery and Outside In. Her numerous private commissions include a music album cover.