My paintings and drawings are an emotional response to landscape and the exploration of colour, space and line.

I use charcoal, Acrylic and oil paint. I record disparate elements of the land, the shape, contour and patterns and faced with the canvas the physicality of the paint takes over. I apply the paint with a brush and a palette knife, I play and shape the surface creating chaos then some sort of order, always a tension between the vertical and horizontal ….

Katharine Edwards is a painter working in Hertfordshire and member of the Hertfordshire Arts Visual Forum and the Contemporary Glass Society. She studied at St Martin’s School of Art in 1984 and Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris 1984- 1987. Her work is in private collections in Europe, USA, Australia, New Zealand and Hong Kong including The Contemporary Arts Society for Wales and ING Bank. Katharine has been working for many years in collaboration with her sister Jane Edwards in the medium of fused glass.