Kate Walters
Affiliation: Independent Artist
Kate studied Fine Art in London, Brighton and Falmouth. She’s based in Trewarveneth Studios, Cornwall.
She trained in classical shamanism between 2000-2006. She teaches creative-shamanic workshops in Cornwall. Details here: https://www.katewalters.co.uk/shamanic-work-and-art-courses/
Kate has had two books of paintings and writing published by Guillemot Press; these grew out of residencies in Iona and Shetland. Walking in Italian National Parks has also been a fond source of inspiration.
Juried exhibitions include: Jerwood Drawing (now Trinity Buoy Wharf )in 2003, 2008 and 2023/4, and 2025; R.A. Summer Show and RWA Autumn exhibitions; Discerning Eye amongst many others. https://www.katewalters.co.uk/cv/
Title of Work: Examples of important dreams
Kate is a painter who draws and writes. She is fascinated by the way dream tissues unfurl their tongues as bees do, to fertilise her paintings or drawings. To her they’re like animals and flowers in the way they self-present: simultaneously certain and hesitant.
The nature of dreaming feels - with its delicacy and fragility - to be more closely aligned with drawing and writing than painting: her current challenge and desire is to find in painting a way of holding, carrying, and gently laying down the tissue of dreams and the imagery they bring and inspire. A recent dream of bees, and being instructed to paint with honey, brought to mind nectar and the food of gods.
Animal guides and instructions from indigenous teachings/Spirit play an important part in her practice; as do theories around the natural wild world and her post-Jungian psychoanalysis.
Various cultures' imagery especially Egyptian, Persian and Sufi fascinate her; Chinese thinking around cosmic consciousness, poetry, and the wild landscape reassures her.