THE WINGED MOON
KATE WALTERS
Epona flowering with Pan & Couple with Horses, painted by flowers
Artist Statement
“My recent paintings and drawings arise from a ground sown/sewn by the tackings of desire, the piercings by long needles powered by unseen hands. Everything is joined together in silky layers. Paint sticks and coagulates or gently oozes. The linens upon which I work are living bodies I come to know. They populate my studio, keep me company, and I love them. Colours are remembered from dreams of pigment fields; or found in pages opened in wild landscapes, drawn into with porcupine quills. Creatures in dreams who once stood lovingly over me in ancient pastures, keeping watch, are remembered through the act of painting; their flesh is re-kindled. Flowers in my garden at dusk accompany me as I paint, they inhabit my hands as I find my way, their gentleness and persistence helping me find the right chord, to place my hands as a pianist might, over the keys of a beloved piano."
Originally trained in Film within a Fine Art department, Kate Walters is a painter who also draws, writes, and teaches the esoteric, dream-born, shamanic, and creaturely. She works from a studio at Trewarveneth Studios in Newlyn, managed by the Borlase Smart John Wells Trust, where she has been based for eleven years. Kate was the recipient of two major awards (2004 and 2007) from Arts Council England South West for the development of her work. She also received travel bursaries to the Venice Biennale and for research trips to London and Berlin. In April 2016, she was awarded a Travel Bursary from a-n Artists Information Co. to support research in the Outer Hebrides and Orkney. She is currently developing a new body of work – paintings and altered books – centred on the Nurseries of Heaven, inspired by vintage Indian books about flowers, birds, and trees.