Kate Lowe
After a foundation course at Wimbledon School of Art, Kate graduated with a degree in Fine Art Painting from the University of the West of England in 2000. Since then she has taken part in a number of group and solo exhibitions around the UK and has just finished illustrating her first book ‘A Cook And A Painter’.
Kate uses oil paint combined with chalk, oil pastel, emulsion and acrylic on canvas and board. Her vibrant paintings are a celebration of colour and mark-making and are influenced by artists such as Roger Hilton, Peter Lanyon, Fiona Ray and Gary Hume. A strong drawing background informs all Kate’s work. She works intuatively building up layers of colour around her drawings.
Kate picks up colour everywhere; retaining wrapping paper and decorative fabrics and keeping shopping bags for the right blue. Inspired by her surroundings when she travels, her landscapes focus on the atmosphere of a place, recapturing a feeling with strong colour combinations and large painterly brush strokes all of which expose her genuine enthusiasm for colour and the joy she feels when painting.
Kate also takes great delight in watching the birds coming to her garden from her studio. Seeing them revisit each day she found herself enchanted by their personalities and often humorous interaction. These works capture the birds decorative plumage and their playful characters, through Kate’s distinctive use of colour and draftmanship.
Solo Shows
2008
The Creative Leap, Rensure Barns, Upper Woodford, Wilts
Bird Paintings, The Source, Cholderton, Wilts
2007
‘Recent Paintings’, Hayletts Gallery, Maldon, Essex
2005
‘Recent Paintings’, Hayletts Gallery, The High Street, Maldon, Essex
2003
‘New Studio Show’, Wickham Barn, Essex
‘Lino lils’, The Severn Shed, Bristol
2002
‘Footloose and Fancy free’, New Inn Yard Space, London .
Group Shows
2008
Mixed Winter, Old Ginger, Fulham, London.
Edinburgh Art Fair, with fourwalls, Edinburgh.
Mixed Summer show, Hayletts Gallery Maldon.
Mixed Beams Gallery, Fisherton Mill, Salisbury, Wilts.
2007
'Eyestorm Design Launch', Eyestorm Design Gallery,
St. Nicohlas Street, Ipswich.
Mixed, Beams Gallery, Fisherton Mill, Salisbury, Wilts.
Hornsey Gallery, Ripon, Yorks.
Summer, Bircham Gallery, Holt, Norfolk.
On going exhibition, Lacy Road Gallery, Putney, London.
Summer Show, Bircham Gallery, Holt, Norfolk.
Affordable Art Fair, Art *, Battersea London.
Current mixed exhibition, Eyestorm Gallery, Ipswich.
2006
On going exhibition, Lacy Road Gallery, Putney, London.
Mayleems, Estate Agency, Balham London.
Autumn and Winter, John Stevens Fine Art, Suffolk.
Spring mixed, Bircham Gallery, Holt Norfolk.
Summer mixed, Hayletts Gallery, Maldon, Essex.
‘Originals’, Eyestorm Gallery, Ipswich, Suffolk.
2005
‘Mixed Summer Show’, Bircham Gallery, Holt, Norfolk.
‘Summer Exhibition’ Hayletts Gallery, Maldon, Essex.
‘Summer Weekend’ John Stevens Fine Art, Suffolk.
OG Exhibition, Ben Nicolson Gallery, Holt, Norfolk.
‘Mixed Spring Show’, Bircham Gallery, Holt, Norfolk.
Affordable Art Fair, Art *, Bristol.
‘Spring Collection’ John Stevens Fine Art, Suffolk.
Affordable Art Fair, Art *, Battersea, London.
2004
‘Winter Collection’, John Stevens Fine Art, Suffolk.
The Islington Art and Design Fair, Candid Arts, London.
On the wall Art Fair, Olympia London.
‘ Contemporary Colours’, John Stevens Fine Art, Suffolk.
Affordable Art Fair, Art *, Battersea, London.
2003
‘ Olena’. Rosy Wilde Gallery, London.
‘Naked in front of my two best friends’. Lennox Gallery.
Fresh Art Fair. Islington Business Design Centre, London.
Easter show, Orange Street Gallery, Uppingham, Rutland.
2002
Winter show. Inside Space, 14-18 Great Titchfield St, London.
‘1997’. Bloomsbury Gallery, London, W1.
2001
‘Fecit’. Subterrenea, 187-211 St.John St, London.
The Bench and Bar Art Exhibition. Lincoln’s Inn, London.
2000
Degree Show. University of the West of England, Bristol.
‘The Millennium Show’. Ben Nicholson Gallery, Gresham’s, Norfolk.
Press
Grazia Magazine, Happy Magazine.
