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Course at Shorlands Old Farm on Exmoor with Kate Walters April 20 – 24th (arriving Friday afternoon after 4 pm, leaving Tuesday morning after breakfast). Walking, drawing, writing, and painting: tuning into the wild beauty of the place.   Two places left suitable for two friends or a couple (double or twin room). £500 each […]

  Babes with Salty Tongues            An exhibition of works in watercolour (2008 – 2018) and a small selection of framed archive watercolours (some shown below), including two works which were shown in the Jerwood Drawing Exhibition in 2008. At the Borlase Smart Room, Porthmeor Studios, Back Road West, St Ives, TR26 1NG […]

I’ve been working with a range of artists, female and male, for around three years;  these artists are friends, colleagues, and former students I’ve met whilst teaching at Newlyn School of Art.  We’ve had group exhbitions at Newlyn Art Gallery and The Plough Arts Centre in the past two years. This up-coming exhibition, with a […]

  The poetry of form, the poetry of water, of paint, of flesh, of whimper, of memory, of winter. Of unwanted limbs and restless hands. Of unanswered cries, of unstroked palms; of tiny hands worn to stumps through wanting. Of motherhead-grown legs & a face lamb formed wet on the hillside, left in the sun […]

The Spirit of the Wind is not silent. It is dark, deep-furred, it growls in the night and tramps about this tower in the ocean, stirring up the depths. The elbow of the storm holds this place in an illusion of safety; and it holds me: I’m tiny, light as snow bunting – I hide […]

The Mothership April 2017 Kate Walters   A green mouth, woody fingers, bowls of deer dust and wire pulled hair (in my pocket on Shetland, even in Italy: it sticks) Walking in Sun along leafy lanes, red carcass beside the road, enormous, stenchy, a story about a farmer who beheaded a cow, left her here, […]

                   I’m very happy to announce that I’m going to be the recipient of a Creative Investment Grant from Cultivator. This will enable me to return to Shetland for my research, for some weeks over the next 6 months. I’m enormously grateful for this opportunity to return to […]

              MOST LOVED MOST FAR:  Kate Walters & Julia Maddison Exhibition: 16 – 28 October 2017 Private View: 17 October 6-8pm Herrick Gallery is delighted to present new watercolours by Penzance based artist Kate Walters and a delicate multi-media installation by London based artist Julia Maddison. The exhibition is accompanied by […]

I’ve decided to have a studio sale to make space for new work. I’ve cleared out my plans chest at home so there are lots of drawings, many wrapped unframed drawings and monotypes, catalogues and cards, and some unframed paintings too. There are also some framed works which I love but which I have had […]

     Here are a few extracts from notes I made whilst on Shetland. The rest of my writing and some of the watercolours/studies will be gathered together into an exhibition and new book – Shetland Notebooks – to be launched in 2019. Details to follow! Horse Island Heathery air. Circle of green on a […]