The most recent works, at the top of the page, were begun during my residency on Shetland where I experienced a deep and profound inner change, which I owe to being on those beautiful Islands and to a certain realisation about aspects of my early life, brought to light by a dream.
I consider making monotypes and to a certain extent my way of working with watercolours, to be drawing. I usually use my left hand and I often work with my eyes closed. I tune into my body, and I work slowly, waiting until I feel certain impulse in my body, which offer a kind of reassurance, before I release my hands to draw. Many of the drawings below were made as I ‘became the hollow bone‘, with my eyes closed, listening to Bach’s Little Organ Book, in a cold barn – or bothy- at Lagandorain (Gaelic for hollow of the otter), on the Isle of Iona. Some were made from drawings I made in my sketchbook in St Oran’s Chapel on Iona; standing in seawater in lochs on Lewis or Barra; or in a little museum in Visso, standing rapt with wonder before wooden painted Madonnas. I make my monotypes on Gampi paper, bible paper, or Chinese calligraphy paper. I also like to use inks made from plants, peat, and earth I gather from where I happen to be walking.
Kate smaller file. Watercolour 2017- Skull with Birth Canal
- After Thought. Watercolour 2017 Kate Walters Shetland 30 x 40 cm
- Child on a promontory KW small file 2017
- Baby with parachute Angel KW 2017 small file
- both pregant with themselves KW 2017 small file
- Bird-breated baby KW small file 2017
- Balancing baby KW small file 2017
- Dark Mother (Shetland). Watercolour 2017 small file
- Horse Ribs. Watercolour. Kate Walters 2017. small file
- Balanced baby KW 2017 small file
- Horse Island Woman Shetland KW 2017 small file
- Horse-child KW 2017
- An ear to hear Watercolour Kate Walters 2017 small file
- Mother with Tern KW 2017 small file
- Woman of the Horses Watercolour with ink stick, 2016, Kate Walters, 35 x 45 cm
- Becoming animal 2016 KW aka Leaving Event cropped edge
- Orkney drawing
- Meeting you O my fluttering heart oil and ink on paper 2016 book page with gesso
- Smiles with Pelican monotype with oil 2016 book page 24 x 16 cm
- Bird making womb for my consciousness book page 2016 oil on gesso-prepared paper
- Wing joined to womb drawing, ink
- Hag, or the part of ourselves we reject, watercolour on paper, 2008
- Sentinel, watercolour on paper, 2008
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- how she gives birth Monotype Iona 2015
- how the sky opens like my tail Monotype Iona 2015
- O my fluttering heart I meet you here, Iona, Monotype, 2015
- that which is incomprehensible to an organ of sense Monotype Iona 2015
- I asked the water Monotype Iona 2015
- Saint with Child and Angel at throat 33 x 24 cm 2015
- Madonna Saint with Child stretching upwards 33 x 24 cm 2015
- Madonna Saint with Child on Knee 33 x 24 cm 2015 ink on paper
- Hare drawing 2016
- Womb with wing monotype 2016
- the saint and the oystercatcher Oak gall ink 24 x 16 cm 2016
- Marc Almond album work Kate Walters original drawing for Velvet Trail 2015 for email