Kate Stewart
“I now feel that celebrating the beauty of the world is a very important function of art; the world is under existential threat and we need to see what we might lose.”
Painting, drawing and making have always been a central part of my life, though I have had no formal art training. I concentrated on textile work once my children started to refuse to wear the decorated clothes I made them.
I particularly like the finer shiny fabrics that can be layered to provide depth of nuanced colours and am lucky to live in Bradford with an abundance of fabric shops.
My work is figurative – landscapes, sky, trees, flowers and some portraits. I used to feel slightly apologetic about simply wanting my work to record something that was either arresting or lovely and worried that I was ‘merely’ producing ‘pretty pictures’. I now feel that celebrating the beauty of the world is a very important function of art; the world is under existential threat and we need to see what we might lose.
I have always used watercolour as part of part of the process of my fabric pieces but have recently started to devote more time to painting for its own sake.
Email katestewart.art@gmail.com
Instagram @katestewart_artist
