Katy Bishop

I am a painter who creates “expressive images,” gestural abstracts that fuse elements of perception, randomness, and control. My works are wild abstracts with bold, vibrant colors, and emotional subtle abstracts that connect with a sense of harmony.
In my journey as a self-taught artist, I paint what I feel, not what I see, capturing the spirit of conversation to communicate
emotions, feelings and ideas that cannot be expressed in words. My art explores life in motion -- the beauty I see around me, a memory, or a dream. I combine color, texture and design to tell the story.
An artist cannot control the flow of alcohol inks any more than controlling the changes that occur in life. In my process as an artist, I embrace the unpredictability of alcohol inks on
synthetic paper, canvas, and plexiglass.
I guide the pigments through a delicate balance between control and surrender. One drop of blue ink will be almost black,but after alcohol is added, fourteen or more different shades of blue will appear depending on the imprecise amount of liquid added. The inks can become transparent or can be deeply pigmented. I use a variety of implements to push, pull,blow, brush, dilute, squiggle, smudge, tilt, and blot the ink into a mirage of form...

Art Institute of Chicago, Wartburg College

The Messengers Gallery
Tag Gallery, Los Angeles
Shockboxx Gallery, Hermosa Beach
Las Lagunas Gallery, Laguna Beach
Roy Briggs Gallery, Long Beach
First Floor Gallery, Santa Clarita
Makery Gallery, Los Angeles
Geo Gallery, Burbank, CA