Katherine Wood

b.1975 Johannesburg South Africa

BIOGRAPHY

The artwork of Katherine Wood can best be described as ‘abstract imaginings’ which stride the divide between traditional landscape and contemporary abstraction.

Katherine’s canvases are a battleground of manipulated and scraped textures that reflect a powerful energy with paint. The landscapes are abstracts of her imagination that are representative of no specific time frame, place or reality but rather a general energy or spirit of place and time. This allows one’s own imagination and interpretation to come into play.

Having studied Fine Art at Stellenbosch University in South Africa, Katherine then travelled and studied paint techniques in both Scotland and Australia in 1999 and 2000 and moved back to South Africa to open her own art gallery of various mixed emerging artists. In 2001, Katherine decided to sell her gallery and paint professionally. In 2004, she and her husband moved to a tourist coastal town in South Africa called Knysna and opened her own signature gallery, Katherine Wood Fine Art. In January 2013, Katherine, her husband and 2 small children moved to the Sunshine Coast of Australia and continues to paint professionally and supply her agents worldwide. Her gallery in South Africa is still trading today, displaying her beautiful work.

ARTIST STATEMENT

My art is not about reproducing reality; but capturing the energy that creates it.

Katherine Wood CV