Kate Sherman’s landscape paintings have a delicate impasto surface and
brisk brush marks which belie their intricate structure – where
compositions of skylines, horizon lines and road lines are sensitively
balanced by fence posts, signposts or trees.

The paintings, all oil on board, originate from photographs she has
taken of her surrounding landscape. This photographic 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. It is a poignant and quiet melancholy
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.

Originally from the Jurassic Coast in Dorset, Kate now lives and works
in Sussex. Kate completed a BA Hons Degree in Fine Art at Birmingham
University. Kate has exhibited widely, including in juried exhibitions ING
Discerning Eye (2019, 2020, 2023), Royal Academy Summer Exhibition
(2015, 2018, 2024), Wells Art Contemporary (2018), and Figurative Art Now
(2021).