Kate Van Suddese has been painting for over 25 years, using oil on canvas to create her distinctive seascapes and coastal impressions. Her works are created in series, progressing through colour, form and contrast to seek new ways of capturing the elusive nature of the sea and its relationship to land and the observer. Each series informs the next, creating planned and unplanned diversions as she explores the differing aspects of the nature of the sea. Where one series may focus on the ethereal nature of light and reflection, another series may focus on the tumultuous depths of the water itself. Often her inspiration comes from specific places, events or lines of poetry that she translates into marine imagery, using the language of the seascape to convey a momentary feeling or event. Most of Kate’s work holds very little evidence of man: she prefers to use the sea to express emotion.
‘My new work is based around the half light hours seen between night and day and felt in the moments when storm and calm collide, the period of transition from one state to another, a quiet intake of breath before the last light fades or the first light shines,' Kate explains. 'The paintings are centred around areas along the North East and North Yorkshire coastline, with further inspiration garnered from the amazing Tall Ships visiting Hartlepool.’
Kate is a graduate of Sunderland University. She has exhibited widely, for example, as part of the leading Not the Turner Prize Exhibition, and has held many solo exhibitions around the UK.
-300x300.jpg "Walk along the Foaming Deep")
-300x300.JPG "Paper Sky")
-300x300.JPG "Flight Of the Wyld Swan")
-300x300.jpg "The Adventure Begins")
 1 (2)-300x300.JPG "Whistle Down the Night")
