KATE SHERMAN

Born in 1970, Kate Sherman grew up on the Jurassic coast in Dorset. After her Fine Art degree in 1993, Kate spent over ten years working in London curating and dealing on modern and contemporary art. She now lives and works in East Sussex, painting full time.

Her paintings have a delicate impasto surface and brisk brush marks which belie their intricate structure: Compositions of skylines, horizon lines and road lines are sensitively balanced by fence posts, signposts or trees.

The paintings, all oil on board no larger than 30 x 20 cm, originate form photographs she has taken from the surrounding Sussex landscape. This photogenic source is important because the paintings capture a reflective notion of memory, of the emotional distance between a real landscape and a photograph, between experience and longing.

The works have a poignant and quiet melancholy reminiscent of Edward Hopper, that is expressed both by the portrayal of sparse unpopulated landscapes containing elemental traces of man, and by her restrained palette which is often suffused in a reserved Northern European light of chalky blues and pink-blushed greys.