Kate Lycett: Limited Edition Embellished Prints

Kate is a Hebden Bridge based artist, whose early influences include, aged 9, being taught technical drawing by her grandfather. More formal training included studying fine art at St. John’s in York, where she specialised in textile design. When commercial design work failed to enthuse her, she returned to painting and has built a strong reputation and a loyal fan-base.

She describes her style as follows “My textile design background is always present in the way that I paintand interpret what is around me. I see patterns in everything; the hills adorned with houses and washing lines, rows of flower pots and stripes of brightly painted drain pipes. Lines of gold thread trace paths through the landscape, and gold leaf changes the surface of my pictures with the changing light of day. I want to paint beautiful pictures of the places that I love. There are never people in my pictures but they’re full of life and warmth.”

At present the Bingley gallery has only imited edition prints of Kate’s works, but these are individually embellished by the artist using the gold leaf  and gold thread highlights which help make her work insantly recognisable, as well as being beautifully titled and signed.