Collection: Kate Bell : Painter : Swansea

Kate’s work is concerned with concepts relating landscape to philosophical thought about place and space. She is concerned with nature and transitional space, questioning the boundary between representation and pure abstraction, and expanding the notion of how land and seascape are explored and understood

Her creative practice stems from a fascination for this spiritual connection between land and sea, sky, nature, and mythology. The fragile boundary separating figuration and abstraction underlies her work. Her paintings are an encounter, an embodiment of a sense of place through a continual dialogue between real and imagined geographies. Ancient and contemporary themes lay traces and layers in the work, fluid yet static changing states, build on the mysterious surfaces beneath.