Waiting Painting

Central to the theme in my work is an interest in traces of existence and an ongoing attempt to try to capture the atmosphere of a space left, or viewed by a person. This idea takes the form of a painting of an interior and sometimes a landscape viewed from a room. After the last year and a half living and teaching art and design in Thailand, my work have changed to become much stiller and calmer, reflecting the heat of this environment and creating I feel, a more pure and distilled image. The struggle of how to "˜bottle' environment is what drives my practice. It is an ongoing puzzle to me that whilst I have spent most of my career working closely with families and people as a teacher, which I have deeply loved, I have always found it very difficult to include people within my work, rather I am concerned with noticing what has been left behind. www.katherinemillar.com