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Hello, I’m Katie.
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Thank you for visiting 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).
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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'.

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).
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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.
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Named Cotton on Manchester's 'Manc of the Month' (Dec 2022).
Click here to read the interview.
Delivering a talk about my paintings and practice at Saul Hay Gallery
Katie Patel Artist