North Yorkshire based, Katrina has been developing her skills in acrylic and mixed media for the last year.

Originally a graphite and coloured pencil artist, she has blended her background as an architectural technologist, with a passion for detail, and her love of vibrant colour.

Her work is heavily influenced by contemporary Spanish art, Colour Field painting and the Op Art movement. In particular, Carlos Cruz-Diez, Bridget Riley and Frank Stella. Not wanting to be confined to one genre, Katrina's work can be identified by impasto palette knife strokes with a range of colours designed to stimulate the eye and imagination

Based in Haworth, I live and work in an old West Yorkshire textile mill building called Damside Mill. Our gallery and my studio are open to visitors by appointment or periodically for exhibitions.

I predominantly work with paint and clay. I think of my ceramic vessels as 3D abstract paintings. They are hand built, layered with slips, oxides and glazes. When fired they evolve to become an object that may have been weathered or forged by the environment.

I use oil paint, often over or with different mixed media materials, on wood, paper and canvas.