Bio
Kate Phillips is a Scottish artist who currently lives in The Bay Area. She studied printmaking at Glasgow School of Art and for the past seven years has worked in the encaustic medium. Her drawings and paintings are made using this ancient technique which is a layering of bees wax/resin and pigments fused together with a blowtorch. Kate traps found images, old paper and thread between these layers to create intriguing worlds, beckoning the viewer closer, to hear the stories they whisper. They smell nice too.

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Artist Statement
When I paint, I travel to a little world where the light is like that of a late sunny afternoon just as summer is becoming autumn and the glaring sunshine becomes a warmer sleepy glow. It is an in between place where things are not quite as they seem. In this world I visit old houses and gardens collecting old paper and memories. The fragmented images and feelings from these journeys float up to the surface which I capture between layers of beeswax, trapping a fleeting moment, in a slightly haunted suspension. These collections of marks and images become souvenirs of journeys back there.

All images © Kate Phillips. Please respect the artist and ask permission if you would like to use any images from this site.

email: katephillipsart@yahoo.com