Katie Mawson
Katie formerly trained as a textile designer and has for many years run a successful knitwear business. Her main strength has always been her use of colour and her fascination and love of colour has more recently taken her down the Art path.
Over the past few years Katie has been collecting vintage cloth bound books from local charity shops, she uses the cloth from these books as both her Palette and canvas. The array of colours is infinite, many of them faded and marked through time...they all have a former life and story.
She slices, cuts, rips and skins these beautifully marked and faded cloths from their boards; this is all part of the making process...deconstructing to then reconstruct into something new
She lives in the Lake District and wild swims at sunrise throughout the year; the quietness and calmness of these swims, along with the changes in weather and seasons, inform her work as does the aging process within more urban environments; she likes to juxtapose the beauty of urban decay and dereliction with the purity of nature.
