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Here is some text I wrote recently for Sally Tripptree’s joint show at The Crypt Gallery in London. All the little, tiny, overlooked & forgotten births. Writing on Sally Tripptree’s paintings by Kate Walters. Spending time with these luscious drawings and paintings there’s a sense for me of being drawn through something; the image which […]

Next week on Thursday June 23rd (6-8 pm) my third solo exhibition at Arusha Gallery will open. It will comprise of many paintings and some drawings made during the past two years. There will also be two wonderful supporting essays; one by Amy Hale and one by a collaborator and colleague who is a member […]

https://synesthesia.online/Parallels-Encounters for the Symposium, coming soon! Parallels / Encounters: Art, Words and their Meetings. Online | 10am – 2pm, 30th June & 7th July A two-part symposium on the parallel of art and words in contemporary visual art practices and how they come together in forms of publication. Featuring discussions, practical workshops, and sharing of […]

I’ve just returned from Devon, the beautiful School of Art & Wellbeing, teaching a workshop: Finding the inner warrior. Three days to find, begin and nurture a relationship with our own inner sacred or spiritual warrior. We worked with the shamanic journey, drawing and meditation to track the inner warrior: asking what does he or […]

My paintings have been selected for this month’s Flux Review…exciting!

“The Creative is Round, the Creative is Heaven”: Workshops for 2022 with Kate Walters In Devon, at the beautiful School of Art and Wellbeing near Honiton. https://artandwellbeing.co.uk/ photo by Sally Tripptree All workshops in Devon begin on the first day at 11am and finish on the last day at 5pm. In each workshop there will […]

Dates and details of next year’s courses: Fruitful Arm a recent poem and a painting from 2018; the dance between Eros and Psyche A new poem in response to a recent workshop with me (and a dream I had of different stairs), by Kathy Wray: Playground snake marked at each step one vertebra a climbing […]

Recently I asked a psychoanalytic colleague why men might be afraid of my new work. What he wrote is below, followed by some of my thoughts and reflections. By a happy coincidence, I was already working with the image of Medusa and her Tongue, thinking about language, mother animals and the way they wash their […]

I often make drawings of paintings when I know they’re incomplete, but are at an interesting or important stage; it’s a little like taking a snapshot of the stages in a relationship. In my paintings I often obliterate interesting passages too, and it’s a way of keeping a record of their evolution. Sometimes the signposts […]

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Arusha Gallery (@arushagallery) Bathing nervous limbs open daily until 29th of August, co-curated by Ella Walker for Edinburgh Art Festival 2021 Bathing nervous limbs BY SUSAN MANSFIELD, 11.08.2021 blog detail Balneum, 15th C., f.3v, detail. © The University of Edinburgh. The starting point for this group […]