Kristin Rawcliffe

Kristin Rawcliffe is an oil painter living in Yateley, Hampshire. After studying Art at university, she had a long break from painting to raise her family.

She is currently finishing an MA in Fine Art at the University of Reading, for which her final exhibition received the Owen Ridley Award. Before returning to study, Kristin spent seven years building her art career, teaching art, and exhibiting in group and solo exhibitions in London and the South of England, including the Society of Women Artists and the ING Discerning Eye.

About her artworks, she says, “I paint figurative representations of motherhood and identity in oils. My work is shaped by experiences of poverty, overwhelm, isolation and social judgement, from memories as a young mother, and as an older mother whose children have left home, both times of huge identity shift. I draw inspiration from religious paintings that resonate with me from a catholic childhood, from photographs and memories. I enjoy exploring the materiality of paint to use it for emotive power and storytelling. It is an evolving and exploratory process where experiments with colour and mark making can steer my direction. I also like to reference objects I’ve made as preparatory work to emphasise how we construct a ‘reality’ which is subjective to us.”

Check out more of Kristin’s work at https://www.mothertales.co.uk