compiled by Jane Stroud
Katharine Holmes Sunshine, Haytime Looking Down Malhamdale, oil on board, 19 x22in (48 x56cm)
Katharine Holmes comes from three generations of female painters – each of whom has worked from a remote studio in the Yorkshire Dales. Following a commission by the Mercer Art Gallery in Harrogate, Katharine decided to follow in her grandmother’s footsteps (the noted painter, Constance Pearson), to recreate the landscapes she had captured nearly a century before. The key to Katharine’s work is the weather, about which she is passionate and determined not to be beaten by. Working outside and dominated by the vagaries of the weather, Katharine makes small ink and wash sketches and watercolour and gouache paintings on windbattered pieces of paper, or works directly in oil onto boards.