Fen Ditton Gallery welcomes Kate Boucher as first 'artist-in-residence'
Open :Studio Weekend: Saturday 25th / :Sunday 26th June, 10am - 5pm
You are invited to visit the gallery this weekend as charcoal landscape artist Kate Boucher takes over the space and continues to work on some of her atmospheric Fenland drawings, made as part of the Fen Ditton Gallery artist residency. Works from this and other bodies of Kate’s work will be available for purchase.
:We are excited to launching our brand new artist residency programme next month by welcoming landscape artist, Kate Boucher, to Fen Ditton.
Gallery owner, Lotte, will be hosting the live-in residency at Fen Ditton Gallery (also her home) and hopes that this new strand to the gallery will evoke fresh and interesting outlooks on the Fens and surrounding landscapes.
“The Fens is a landscape like no other and one I have photographed many times. I’m looking forward to working with Kate and inspiring each other to approach the area with fresh eyes.”
About the artist:
Charcoal landscapes by Kate Boucher
Artist, author and tutor Kate Boucher studied at Chelsea School of Art in the early 1990s, graduating from West Dean College with a Master of Fine Art 2016. She is a QEST Scholar and has received several awards. Her work has been exhibited with that of David Nash RA, Alice Kettle and Tai Shan Schierenberg and held in private collections internationally. Kate teaches at West Dean College and was introduced to the gallery by photographer and friend of the gallery, Graham Murrell.
Kate Boucher’s work is created in response to landscapes that are in some way, transitional. These landscapes are recorded in the liminal states of twilight and daybreak, where the separation seems thinner between the real, the sensed and the remembered. Boucher responds to these landscapes through a drawing and making practice, exploring this tension between the sensed and the known.
Kate will be holding a one-day workshop at the gallery on Friday 24th June. Find out more and book your place here. There will also be an open studio weekend, more information to follow.