Katie Minoprio

I am a painter in both oils and acrylics based in the UK and work from my studio in East Sussex. Central to my work is a love of painting water, and recently contemporary landscapes, making a vivid, semi-abstract link with the organic world.

I use a strong combination of intense colour and texture to build paintings by layer into an emotive whole, with the aim of engaging the viewer with the majesty of nature and a desire to preserve the world in which we live.

In my own paintings I try to merge, in a contemporary sense, something about locations and places in the world that I have had the experience of visiting, or feel there’s an urgency to preserve.  Visual beauty has its origins in the natural world and I love conveying this via traditional painting techniques.

I was raised in the far east, later returning to the south of England. I spent earlier years painting the British 'summer' in natural colours, of water scenes (gardens, parks, canals and ponds). I have exhibited widely in the south-east and London and have work in public and numerous private collections in the UK, the USA including NY, France, the Netherlands, Canada, Denmark and Kazakhstan.

Informal training 2005-07 under Brian Watterson and Rose Wylie, School of Tunbridge Wells, Monson Road. Brian originally trained under Roy Oxlade who was in turn a pupil of Bomberg at the London Borough Polytechnic.

2012 first class honours, History & Philosophy of Art, University of Kent at Canterbury

/Selected Group Shows:
18 Nov 2023-Jan 2024 Christmas Exhibition, Rye Art Gallery
5-30 Nov 2021 The Medina Gallery, Via Angelo Polizziano, Rome, Italy
Dec 3-Jan 3 2021 Christmas Show, Rye Art Gallery
Sep-Nov 2014 Autumn Exhibition, Stark Gallery, Canterbury
Jul-Sep 2014 Summer Show, McAllister Thomas, Godalming
Jan-Feb 2014 3-Woman exhibition, McAllister Thomas, Godalming
Apr 2013 Bluemoon Gallery, Tunbridge Wells
Jul-Sep 2008 David Lilford Fine Art, Canterbury
Dec-Jan 2008 Rhapsody House Gallery, Tunbridge Wells
May-Jun 2008 Rhapsody House Gallery, Tunbridge Wells

/Solo Shows:
2020 Private solo summer exhibition Narford Hall, Norfolk (date tbc)
June 2017, Grey London, Hatton Garden, EC1
2007 Rhapsody House, Tunbridge Wells
2006 August Gallery, Brenchley, Kent
2005 Arndean, Cork Street W1

/Art Fairs:
/Represented by Lena Boyle Fine Art, London SW5
Battersea Affordable, SW11 (2016-15-14-13)
Hampstead Affordable, SW15 (2016-15-14)
London Art Fair, N1 (2016-15-14)
International, Kensington Gore, SW7 (2014)
Chelsea, SW3 (2014)

/Represented by Rhapsody House, T Wells
Brighton (2009-08)
Art Ireland, Dublin (2007)
Olympia, W14 (2007)
Art Manchester, (2006)
Demelza ‘Art & S...