Fragmented Realities

Kate makes paintings of imagined places from written descriptions given to her by others.  Using her own paintings as source material she create new paintings – new ‘places’.

The work uses fortune-tellers or projections, or other devices to manipulate the original. The process is a metaphor for how we understand text . It expresses the ambiguity and elusive qualities of the description, the writer’s viewpoint and the other unknown qualities beyond what is described,  also conveying the passing of time, the mixing overlapping and fading of memory.