Kate Cox is an abstract artist from New Zealand. Originally from Auckland she is now based in the beautiful Bay of Islands. She manages her professional practice from her family’s characterful one hundred year old villa while a new separate studio is under construction.
After earning a Bachelor of Design she worked in Auckland and London on commercial interior projects.
Simultaneously she pursued her passion of becoming a professional artist by taking fine art courses with mentoring and painting commissioned works.
She currently practices full time and is most comfortable and noted for producing large abstract works and recently started exhibiting abstract landscape works. Primarily she paints with acrylics and oil sticks on canvas.
She has been a finalist for the Walker and Hall Waiheke Art Award and the Estuary Art and Ecology Award.
““Daydreamer’s Conference is a collection of abstract paintings presenting emotional landscapes. I chronicle moments and thoughts as a painter and parent with themes of endurance and hope.”
“With a family accustomed to isolation and an art practice at home I offer a summary of lighthearted daydreams while grounded. My visual language interprets restoring and reliving memories, making sense of thoughts that linger and ideals that may happen. Interestingly for me these emotional landscapes are unconsciously reminiscent of physical landscape forms. Perhaps where I long to travel.”
“Large scale works on canvas allow freedom and physicality with materials while representing large waves of emotion. I apply acrylic paint and ink to make thick gestural painterly marks, washes and glazes. Paired with oil sticks and oil pastels I intuitively draw and experiment straight on to the canvas using an array of brushes plus scraping tools, wipes and rags striving for a strong and balanced composition. The lighter and softer colour palette is a reprieve from a more colourful reality. Restful spaces within the painting show quieter moments in life contrasted with rapid mark making reflecting daily distractions and interruptions.””
