Sea Spray Print

KATI KAIA b. Hong Kong Born in Hong Kong, China. Kati spent her early childhood in Shouson Hill on Hong Kong Island’s steep slopes and palm trees of Deep Water Bay. Her family moved to the UK, where she studied art and has always loved painting and abstract mark making from an early age, being influenced by Asia, love of Japanese Art and the light touches of English painters such as Turner. She received her BA (Hons) from Ravensbourne in 2005 and continued her study with The University of The Arts, London. Following a diverse career as a fashion designer and creative director of print, obsessing with print and colour work, she has worked for some of the world’s top luxury labels and international brands in London, New York and SE Asia. Her love of colour, combinations and expression draws her creative outlay to painting, where she can explore mark-making and colour field work, connecting to colour on a primal level and the roots of colour as an expression and connection without form - expressing stories of love, discord, war and peace through the form of colour alone to connect with the beholder and envelope in abstract movement.