As Above, So Below 24” x 48” Mixed Media on Cradled Panel
Kathleen Ainscough
Kathleen has studied and created fine art, costumes, and textile arts for over 35 years.
She works with a variety of media and techniques including painting, photography, sculpture and textiles.
Early studies at Emily Carr led Kathleen to work in props and costuming for a variety of dance, TV and film productions. Her education at Capilano College includes diplomas in studio arts, textile arts, and ceramics. She actively creates, exhibits, and teaches in these areas, a natural progression for her many years of art practice and inspires a deeper connection to her creative process.
She offers mixed media art workshops through the Hearth - Arts on Bowen, where she works as their program coordinator. Kathleen has participated in several exhibitions; Cityscape Gallery, East Van Cultch, a solo show at the Hearth Gallery and returned as the artist in residence at Rust Wine Co. in Oliver, BC for her third year. Her work is featured in the North Van Arts "You are Here” Calendar 2021 and she is also the featured artist for the Bowen Island Community Foundation.
ARTIST'S STATEMENT
Impermanence and the cycles of nature are my inspiration. Light emerging from shadow, the relationships between humans and nature, rich surfaces echoing time-worn layers scoured by the elements, deep pools of water, reflections, mist on the shoreline, are captured in layers of paint and other materials.
I am intrigued by the patterns and repetition found in nature’s microscopic to cosmologic worlds and how they are reinterpreted in the built environment.
My passion is in the process and materials. Awakening the surface with bold, intuitive marks, layers of paper, paint and textures, captures the early freedom and spontaneity. Much is learned from experiments and working intuitively, embracing the unexpected and responding spontaneously.
When I am immersed in art making there is a sense of freedom, an unmeasured sense of time - kairos, or episodic, rather than chronos, or linear.