Hello, I’m Katie.
Thank you for taking the time to visit my website.
Art, for me, is a powerful celebration of life. It serves as a refuge, a way of communicating emotion and exploring and rationalising the world as I experience it. I believe in the meaningful and uplifting impact of art. In my world, colour and contrast are key communicators of emotion. By creating art and deploying colour in a way that is truly personal to me, I aim to forge a deeper connection with others.
I’m a self-taught artist living in Stockport, Greater Manchester. After a ten-year career in language teaching, I decided to pursue my life-long passion for art, starting up my own business as an artist. I work from my family home in Bramhall, enjoying commissions, projects and exhibitions (details below).
I mainly paint with acrylics, using brushes, palette knives and pens, but I also love to draw, and I sometimes use a tablet and stylus to create digital paintings. My subject matter is varied, from landscapes and cityscapes to nature, abstract work and portraiture. I like this diversity to stretch me in different directions and I find that one type of work often informs another.
In portrait painting, I find the process of capturing a likeness extremely satisfying. I’m honoured that my portrait of Dr Katie Rogerson for Tom Croft’s #portraitsfornhsheroes initiative, was selected both for the Google Arts & Culture online exhibition and the fine art book ‘Portraits for NHS Heroes’, published by Bloomsbury in November 2020.
To find out a bit more about my art journey, read my interview with Cotton on Manchester as 'Manc of the Month'.
Many of my paintings and processes are on Instagram so if you are interested, you can follow here @k.patel.artwork
Memberships
Member of Stockport Art Guild since 2017 - based at Stockport Art Gallery. Partaking in annual exhibition and attending weekly portrait sessions and reguar workshops (pre-covid).
Member of Instagram's international online art collective @thenewartrebellion - participating in monthly online exhibitions featuring a range of contemporary and abstract work from around the globe (Member of the Month Oct 2020).
Regular exhibitor at Technically Brilliant gallery in Warrington and Eden Gallery in Newburgh.
Named Cotton on Manchester's 'Manc of the Month' (Dec 2022).
Click here to read the interview.
Exhibitions & Events
Jan 14th - April 18th 2023
'A Thousand Words' Art Exhibition - Eden Gallery, Newburgh
2022
Nov 22- Feb 4th 2023
'Winter Open Call, Inch Arts Gallery, Altrincham
Nov 22 - 20th Jan 2023
Stockport Art Guild Annual Exhibition, Stockport Art Gallery, Stockport
Oct 9th - Dec 2022
'Wow' Exhibition, Technically Brilliant Gallery, Warrington
Oct 1st - 29th 2022
'Catapult' exhibition, Curated by Cotton On Manchester
Whitworth Locke Hotel, Civic Quarter, Manchester
Sept 23rd - Nov 16th 2022
Autumn Open at Eden Gallery, Newburgh
Aug 17th - 28th 2022
'Beyond Landscapes' exhibition, Curated by Cotton On Manchester
Saul Hay Gallery, Castlefield, Manchester
July 24th - Sept 22nd 2022
Stockport Open Art Exhibition, Stockport Art Gallery
June 19th 2022
Art Trail - Didsbury Open Gardens
May 2022- August 2022
Summer Open at Eden Gallery, Newburgh
May 12th 2022 (3 weeks)
GLOW exhibition celebrating women and their changes in life
The Carlton Club, Whalley Range
Mar 2021- May 2022
Spring Open at Eden Gallery, Newburgh
Feb - May 2022
'Keep of the Grass', Technically Brilliant Gallery, Warrington
Feb 2022
'Beyond the Shadows' - Solo Exhibition, Didsbury Parsonage
2021
Dec 2021- Feb 2022
Winter Open at Eden Gallery, Newburgh
Nov 2021 (1st -14th)
Creative Collective, Pop Up Gallery, Altrincham (28 George Street, Stamford Quarter)
Oct 2021- Jan 2022
In the Making, Technically Brilliant Gallery, Warrington
Sept - Oct 2021
Macclesfield Open Online Art Exhibition 2021 (www.maccopen.org.uk)
July 2021- Oct 2021
Wish You Were Here, Technically Brilliant Gallery, Warrington
May 2021- July 2021
Stockport Art Guild 100th Annual Art Exhibition, Stockport Art Gallery
Apr 2021- July 2021
Resolution, Technically Brilliant Gallery, Warrington
2020
Nov 2020
Portrait published in Bloomsbury's 'Portraits for NHS Heroes'
Oct 2020- April 2021
Love of Illusion, Technically Brilliant Gallery, Warrington
Mar 2020 - May 2021
Ekphrastic Exhibition, Stockport Art Gallery
Aug - Oct 2020
Recreation ,Technically Brilliant Gallery, Warrington
Jun - Aug 2020
Macclesfield Open Online Art Exhibition 2020, Macc Open Exhibition website
Feb - Aug 2020
2020 Vision, Technically Brilliant Gallery, Warrington
Jan 2020 - 2021 - ongoing
Solo exhibition, The Art of Tea, Didsbury
2019
Dec 2019
Solo exhibition, My World in Colour, Didsbury Parsonage, Didsbury
Nov - Jan 2019/20
Stockport Art Guild Annual Art Exhibition, Stockport Art Gallery
Jun - Sep 2019
Stockport Open Art Exhibition, Stockport Art Gallery
Mar 2019
Macclesfield Open Art Exhibition, Macclesfield Townhall
2018
Oct - Dec 2018
Stockport Art Guild Exhibition, Stockport Art Gallery
June 2018
Solo exhibition, Didsbury Open Gardens, Didsbury
Katie Patel Artist