Kathryn Millard:
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Kathryn Samirah Millard
b.1963: a post boomer only just !! Art is a highly personal occupation, like finger prints and handwriting. We artists all express ourselves in our own inimical way - although we may "belong to a school" we are in the end all individuals heading out on a singular adventure. |
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I will first tell you what I am not, just so we understand each other, and that is a copyist. I make no attempt to depict things as a photo-realist might, it’s simply not my style. What I think of myself as an artist is someone who wants to share with the viewer a poetic sensibility, my view on the world, a visual poem from my heart.
You as the viewer will make of it what you will, as you bring with you many thoughts, feelings and private beliefs about art and how it makes you feel. That is the game we play, and we may never meet. We may not even agree.
Beauty is important, it can be transcendent. Watching the dawn unfold on a still morning can take you on a journey out of the ordinary day that will follow. It can be a special and intense moment. I suppose sometimes that is what i wish to convey to you.
I have lived in numerous countries for quite a lot of my life, painting in Europe, Caribbean, USA, South America and now in the Pacific. But my lineage, if you like, is of the British Landscape tradition, I studied in London and then went to Ireland.
It is my ambition to remain creative to keep looking out at the landscape and translating my intimate reactions into touches of paint on canvas, or pastel on paper or indeed watercolor on paper. And I hope that you too will enjoy some of the images that are made along the way.
You as the viewer will make of it what you will, as you bring with you many thoughts, feelings and private beliefs about art and how it makes you feel. That is the game we play, and we may never meet. We may not even agree.
Beauty is important, it can be transcendent. Watching the dawn unfold on a still morning can take you on a journey out of the ordinary day that will follow. It can be a special and intense moment. I suppose sometimes that is what i wish to convey to you.
I have lived in numerous countries for quite a lot of my life, painting in Europe, Caribbean, USA, South America and now in the Pacific. But my lineage, if you like, is of the British Landscape tradition, I studied in London and then went to Ireland.
It is my ambition to remain creative to keep looking out at the landscape and translating my intimate reactions into touches of paint on canvas, or pastel on paper or indeed watercolor on paper. And I hope that you too will enjoy some of the images that are made along the way.
See me at the 2019 Arts Trail
