Exhibition
Meet the artist Katharine Rowe
24 Oct 2015
Event times
From 1pm until 3pm
Address
- 340 Old York Road
- Wandsworth Town
- London
- SW18 1SS
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- 44, 28, C3, 295
- Wandsworth Town Rail station
Come and visit us this Saturday to meet the artist Katharine Rowe as part of our exhibition Floral Variation!
About
Come and visit us this Saturday to meet the artist Katharine Rowe as part of our exhibition Floral Variation!
Katharine grew up in Oxfordshire and studied art at the University of Edinburgh and spent a year at the Universite de la Sorbonne in Paris. She now lives and works from her studio at home in Southfields. Katharine has painted her whole life but upon leaving university started work in advertising. Whilst being great fun, after a decade in advertising she found herself becoming increasingly claustrophobic in an office, yearning to be outside battling the elements with a paintbrush. The past 7 years have been dedicated to just that.
Katharine describes her work as colourist. Obsessing about colour, she spends a long time mixing across three palettes before I start painting. For inspiration she looks to the colourists of the 20th century: Matisse, Derain, Peploe, Vlaminck, Hockney to name but a few. Living so close to all the fabulous exhibition spaces of London, she tries to see all the big exhibitions and write reviews of them on her blog page.