Bath artist Kate Flood will be showing a collection of radiant landscapes in her upcoming exhibition, “The Light Within” which opens at the Victoria Art Gallery on Saturday 3 December.
Kate Flood’s paintings are primarily based on nature – featuring landscapes derived from memory and imagination. She creates spaces full of light and colour that evoke both mood and atmosphere.
Painting mainly in oils onto prepared wooden panels or linen – using warm, glowing colours to draw the spectator in – her paintings develop slowly in the studio, sometimes adding layers or removing paint to get back to an earlier surface.
She said: “In my paintings, I am looking to convey both a transient moment, glimpsed, and an essence of the quiet stillness of the particular surroundings. It is a painterly dialogue between change and the persistence of the landscape.
“Sometimes the view is from a window, or a shaded enclosure, looking out towards the light or onto a landscape; my aim being to explore the contrast between stillness and the fleeting patterns of light and shade, as well as the elements that determine them.”
The Kate Flood exhibition is influenced by poetry, especially the work of Edward Thomas, Seamus Heaney and Japanese haiku. She is particularly inspired by the way they use language to evoke landscape and feeling without resorting to description.
Councillor Cherry Beath (Lib-Dem, Combe Down), Cabinet Member for Sustainable Development, said: “It’s always an honour for Bath & North East Somerset Council to showcase local talent at the Victoria Art Gallery. We welcome everyone to take a look at this wonderful exhibition – from the casual spectator who enjoys being transported to another place by art to other budding artists who may find some fantastic inspiration.”
After taking a BA in painting at Sheffield University in 1983, Kate Flood relocated to London. She has exhibited in the Royal Academy Summer Show and the “Discerning Eye” exhibition at the Mall Galleries in London, as well as at the European Parliament in Brussels. She moved to Bath five years ago. All of her exhibited works of art are for sale and the exhibition runs until 5 February 2012.
Kate Flood will also give a free talk and tour to the blind and partially sighted from 10.30am to 12noon on Thursday 15 December.
The Victoria Art Gallery, near Pulteney Bridge in Bath, is open Tuesday to Saturday 10am to 5pm, Sundays 1.30pm to 5pm and closed on Mondays. Admission is free. For more details call 01225 477233 or visit the Gallery’s website http://www.victoriagal.org.uk.