Kate Samankova

Kate Samankova creates abstract paintings inspired by clouds, shifting light, shadows, and atmospheric change. Her work explores how fleeting, intangible moments can be transformed into the physical materiality of oil paint. Through expressive brushwork and sculptural palette knife marks, she captures movement, impermanence, and gesture as a record of time. Influenced by the Japanese concept of Ma, her paintings balance presence and absence, density and openness, creating compositions where rhythm, pause, and space become active elements within the work.

2025-2026 University of Arts London, Camberwell Collage of Arts, MA Fine Art Painting
2022-2025 BA (Hons) Fine Art at Nottingham Trent University (first class honours)

Selected Group Exhibitions
2026
• “Circulus”, Koppel Collective, London, UK
• "SEDULOUS“, LumiNoir ART Gallery, London, UK
• "Dreams", Indra Gallery, London, UK
• “The Great Many Arrows”, Safe House, London, UK
• "Dreams", Indra Gallery, London, UK
2025
• “Square 1”, The Square Gallery, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, UK
• "Aphrodite", The Square Gallery, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, UK
2024
• "January Blues", The Square Gallery, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, UK
• "Process and Practice", The Square Gallery, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, UK
2023
• "The Other Art Fair", with VISUAL ART OPEN, London, UK
Awards
2024
• Global Time Talent, Season 60, 3rd place in Abstract painting Global Time Talent 60
• 3rd place in Painting 2023 TERAVARNA, 6TH Colour International Juried Art Competition,
Honourable Mention Award
2023
• VISUAL ART OPEN, Finalist in Young Category Award