In September 2022 I was sitting quietly in my studio feeling vaguely agitated about something when an idea about creating and doing something positive to raise money and awareness entered the top of my head like a wedge. It wouldn’t go away. I was waiting to see some visitors to my studio; they were bringing […]
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Essay on my work by Fanny Johnstone. No Ordinary Woman.
Photo by kind permission of Hana Shahnavaz, taken at Arusha Gallery on the opening night of my solo show in June 2022 Kate Walters: No Ordinary Woman Painter, poet, shaman, writer and tutor. Kate Walters ‘Love Paintings’ – featuring lovers, angels, spirit animals, organs and shamanic embodiments ablaze with emotion – are currently on a […]
Drawing Near at Tremenheere Gallery, December 2nd and 3rd 2022
Drawing Near is an exhibition, fund-raising event and awareness raising time which will be held at Tremenheere Gallery – by generous permission of Neil Armstrong and Jane Martin. Tom Heale, the gallery manager will be managing sales and overseeing much of the organisation – thank you Tom! Tremenheere Gallery is just outside Penzance. The idea […]
Iona 2022, some notes and feedback….
Below are some responses and some of my teaching notes…. The Blue Mares Anoint the Earth From the velvet of the universe they come, their ears flat to the horse behind, manes rearing and tails soaring. They come climbing the curvature of the earth, draw half-light from dark matter, dark from the stars. Their hooves […]
Workshop on Mystic Paths, and new studio notes.
I recently returned from my workshop in Devon on finding our own unique mystic paths. This was a four day workshop; I think four days is a good length of time in which to dive deep into our own creative and psychological processes. I always hold the space kindly, gently, warmly, and with humour. Notes […]
New writing for myself and for Sally Tripptree.
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 […]
Solo Show LOVE Paintings opens at Arusha Gallery Edinburgh on June 23rd…
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://dateagle.art/ Synesthesia II.
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 […]
Burst, Cultivate, Warrior, Peace, pocket universe
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 […]
Flux Review
My paintings have been selected for this month’s Flux Review…exciting!