Kathy Spedding - artist

Figurative studies, mixed media, oil paintings and digital. Explorations of emotions and body language, reinterpreted within my creative process

I have always revered the work of Renaissance masters like Giorgione, Caravaggio and Dürer, and consequently revelled in the strict training of classical sight-size portraiture at the Charles Cecil School in Florence and with Nicholas Beer in Salisbury.

In contrast, I’m drawn to the immediacy and vitality of both Freud and Schiele’s work. I continue to develop and explore in both oils and digitally. I’m fascinated by the versatility of the digital process, alongside the intensity of impasto oils and more formal painting styles.

Now resident on the North Coast of Cornwall, there is an inevitability that I have been drawn to the dynamics of the seascape environment that surrounds me.

Contact me for further information and to view my latest work.

Exhibitions

Depiction - the human form (group exhibition)

14 February 2020 - ongoing at the Heseltine Gallery Truro

Figuration

27 December 2019 - 4 January 2020 at the Padstow Institute

FindMYSELF

16-22 September 2019 at the Padstow Institute

Group exhibition

5-11 October 2019 at the Padstow memorial Hall

Group exhibition

13-15 September 2019 at the Newquay Fish Festival

Group exhibition

3-11 August 2019 at the Terrance Cottages Newquay

Group exhibition

15 July - 18 August 2019 Alders Court Truro

Education

Foundation

Loughborough School School of Art

Graphics

Goldsmiths University

2015-17

Newly School of Art