Kate Scott

Kate Scott is a Brighton-based abstract painter creating small and vibrant paintings inspired by the changing light across the landscape and skies, and the feelings they evoke.

She studied Fine Art Painting in London and received her MA in Fine Art Printmaking in Brighton. Throughout her paintings, she explores the relationship between the conscious and the unconscious. She says, “I use raw colour, drawing, and gesture to both express and explore illusions of light and depth, and to convey a sense of personal memory, mood, and emotion and create a sense of balance as if it has just come into being.”

“I find myself striving to crystallise and recall the intangible sense of a particular place in time, how it looked and felt to be there, both emotionally and physically, be it landscape or interior space.”

She refers to the physical act of painting like a conversation in which mark-making and layers of colour express the “silent voice that I cannot communicate in any other way.”

About her process, she says, “Sometimes when I walk into my studio, maybe just to get something, a painting will sort of wink at me and speak to me in no uncertain terms, something like … ‘small pistachio green mark needed in the top right-hand corner, now’ ... so I comply. It sometimes works and that mark stays, or, if it gets obliterated, it will be by a flurry of marks and colour that move that painting on to a better, truer place, or a mess that I hope to eventually learn from, and so it continues.”

Kate is a regular exhibitor at Brighton Artists Open Houses.

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