Katie Mawson

Katie is a Lake District based designer - painter.

She formerly trained as a textile designer and more recently has gravitated towards collage using cloth bound books.

Having always been drawn to unusual colour combinations and geometric shapes, Katie’s latest body of work is based around using old book covers as her canvas and palette. This evolution started when one day she saw a mountain of old damaged hard back books in a skip. As a book lover she could not leave them there to be sent to the dump, so she piled them into her studio. Here, she came to appreciate the natural fading of the colours, damage and marks on the covers, a perfect medium for her process, which involves slicing, shredding, skinning and ripping.

The pieces came alive in such a delicate way. Katie paints with the blemished faded textile fragments, deconstructing the covers and reconstructing them into individual artworks.

Each piece has been taken out of context and abstracted into something else, but the memories and history of former ownership and usage are still evident.

The boards that were originally intended to contain and protect creative work have thus become transformed into works in their own right.

Camberwell Art school 1983 - 1986

Gallery 57 Arundel group show 'find/make' 2021

Irving contemporary Oxford. Three person show July 2021

Artefact at the Design centre represented by Jagged Art June 2021

Atelier beside the sea, Brighton. Four person show June 2021

Gallery Nine Bath. Two person show June 2021

Nadia Waterfield fine art Hampshire group show May 2021

Jagged Art gallery London group show 'The collection' May 2021

Soshiro London group show 'Crafting a difference' April 2021


Jagged Art Gallery group show 'Rapt beauty wrapped' Winter 2020

Gallery Top Derbyshire group show 'A Natural Christmas' Winter 2020

Jagged Art Gallery group show 'Material conversations' Autumn 2020

Jagged Art Gallery group show 'Re- flourish' Summer 2020

Group show 'Vibrant' Jagged Art London January 2020

Group show 'On the same page' Jagged Art London November 2019

Brighton art fair. Lewes Autumn 2019

Mylo Art Littledown Hampshire.Group show Summer. 2019


Group show at CAA gallery London 2018