Kate Green

'I paint because of an inner fire and drive, colour gets me out of bed and my paint and prayer life are one. I disappear daily in to my shed of dreams to share my soul with some vestige of aplomb. My Collie snores away at my feet as I push myself on to make sense of the God-shaped voice inside me. It’s rather like the loneliness of the long distance runner as I am not in to angst, but prayer and have committed the anti-establishment sin of being a figurative and narrative painter! I love to share my faith journey, my faith story, with others. God unravels my fire. I am aiming continually at finding a visual language that is both totally modern and yet evokes soul questioning in the viewer. '

Green is concerned with noticing and describing the inner child in us grown-ups, she loves toys and children’s books and regularly reads poetry by Rossetti, Herbert, Auden and Heaney. Green has learnt not to start work without Holy Spirit's input; sometimes He asks to lay down one colour as a start; He speaks back to her through the evolving artwork in front of her. Sometimes she will plan her sketchbooks, but not too much, leaving room for Holy Glory . Green would describe her process as a collaborative one; like prayer made visual. She reads The Bible for pleasure and fuel. Words sometimes appear on the surface of her work. Green likes developing areas of flat space that contrast with depth, fussy pattern with strident mark making. 

Green works in watercolour & stitch, celebrating colour and drawn line that evokes women’s art history from sock darning to embroidery and patchwork - 'In essence, I am sharing the landscape of my heart, whilst doing the best I can to articulate my soul.'

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