Kate Willows
@katewillowsart.bsky.social
Printmaker, Painter, Sculptor. Inspired by nature, humour and the human condition. All work available at https://www.katewillows.co.uk/index.html and prints at https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/KateWillowsPrints?ref=profile_header
The myriad stages of the colour version of ‘Black Shuck Arrives on the Norfolk Shore’. Said to be the black hound of the Viking Odin, whose ship is seen here just offshore. Black Shuck has been roaming the coastline and countryside of East Anglia ever since… #blackshuck #blackdog #viking
A glorious peacock butterfly I found trapped in a glass. Happily, it flew off after a few moments in the sun. #butterfly #peacock
The iridescent beauty of a magpie’s feather. #magpie #iridescent
And while I was on the black, I went all the way over to the dark side with Black Shuck… #blackshuck #blackdog
Top tip for saving some left over printing ink - tracing paper or greaseproof paper are best.
A day of high excitement… my enormous A1 new cutting mat from @jacksons_art has arrived! It is ‘self-healing’ which sounds miraculous 💫 #paper #papercrafts
Laying down the layers… #wellsnextthesea #norfolk #linocut
All carved out. Off to sample the genteel charms of Frinton soon, so I’ll test-print this in a day or so. #anchor #linoprint
I love making small scale sculptures from pewter - there is something alchemical about it. If you listen carefully after the molten pewter has been poured, you can hear the tiny tinkling sound of the metal re-forming its crystalline structure 💫 These are all on my website. #pewter
I was going to do one thing today & ended up doing something quite different and found myself at an amazing exhibition of Escher’s work at Somerset House. Here are a few snippets of my favourites. Printmakers paradise too - mainly woodcuts and lithographs. A visual and mind-bending feast 💫 #escher
‘Starry Night Over Albert Bridge’ will also be making its way into the browser Chelsea Art Society annual exhibition next week. The question for any Londoner - north or south of the river? Are you heading north to Chelsea or south to Battersea as you cross it?! #chelsea #battersea #albertbridge
A porcine day, one way or the other. This little truffle hunter will be wending its merry way to Chelsea next week for the Chelsea Art Society annual exhibition at Chelsea Old Town Hall 16-21 June. #truffle
A squeal of flying pigs! I use offcuts of printing paper to make into little compliment slips to complement any prints I’m sending out. #pig
Come along to the Chelsea Art Society annual exhibition next week! Entry is free, art is good for the heart, the eyes, the soul and the mind. Hopefully you will go away from the exhibition with all of those things refreshed and reframed and with a spring in your step! 💫 #soulfood
I’ve introduced a bit more light into this one. Linocut, 30x30cm - ‘Fireworks Over Battersea’. #battersea #fireworks
A little experiment in etched lino - to recreate the saltmarshes of north Norfolk. #etching #linoetching
Today is International Dawn Chorus Day, so here’s my ‘Mozart’s Starling’ giving it some welly. Mozart had a pet starling, which could sing his compositions. Mozart loved it so much, he gave it a little funeral when it died. #starling #dawnchorus
