These recent paintings continue to explore my experience of the invisible labour of care-giving. I use the language of abstract expressionism (renowned for its machismo and high cultural value) and playfully apply a contemporary feminist lens.
These paintings are available through Kittoe Contemporary. if you are interested in viewing them or finding out more. Please email katherine@kittoecontemporary.com
Thinking of everything II, 2026
Acrylic and oil on canvas
100×100cm (open framed)
£3,300
Creeping shoulds, 2024
Acrylic on linen
22 x 28cm
£880 (open framed)
[Winner of Southwark Park Galleries Annual Open 2024]
Mulch, 2026
Acrylic and oil on linen
50×60cm (open framed)
£1750
Tenterhooks, 2026
Acrylic and oil on linen
25×30cm (open framed)
£880
Another birthday party, 2026
Acrylic and oil on linen
25×30cm (open framed)
£880
Hold Tight, 2025
Acrylic and oil on linen
103 × 103cm (open framed)
£3,300
Hangry, 2025
Acrylic and oil on linen
25 × 30cm (open framed)
£880
Have you checked under the sofa?, 2025
Acrylic, oil and pigment on linen
25 × 30cm (open framed)
£880
Calpol, 2025
Acrylic on linen
25 × 30cm (open framed)
£880
Nature-Nurture, 2025
Acrylic on canvas
30 x 30cm (open framed)
£990
Extra screen time, 2025
Acrylic and oil on canvas
30 × 30cm
£990 (open framed)
Touched out, 2026
Oil on gesso board
30×30cm (open framed)
£990
Messing up, 2026
Acrylic and oil on linen
25×30cm (open framed)
£880
Sharing the load, 2024
Acrylic on linen
22 x 28cm (open framed)
£880
Mostly holding it together, 2025
Acrylic and oil on handmade paper
38 × 48.5cm
Float mounted with UV non-reflective art glass
£400
Papering over the cracks, 2025
Acrylic and oil on handmade paper
38 × 48.5cm
Float mounted with UV non-reflective art glass
£400
These paintings have sold and are in private collections. They show how my practice is developing.
I use colour, hidden layers, transparency, erasure and gestural marks to celebrate the mundane, repetitive, messy, intimate, complex and often invisible work of family life.
I explore the visual language of abstract expressionism because of it’s association with machismo and it’s high cultural value, and I try to playfully apply a contemporary feminist lens. Emptying the dishwasher, sorting PE kits, organising childcare, remembering birthdays, writing shopping lists, wiping hands, bums, surfaces, tears, aren’t the usual preoccupations of Fine Art, but they deserve to be. I try to assert the hidden value and beauty of these physical, emotional and cognitive loads which underpin our lives and economies.
The weight of things, 2025
Acrylic and oil on linen
50 × 60cm
in private collection (through Southwark Park Galleries)
Apart from that, everything’s fine, 2024
Acrylic on Linen.
22 × 28cm
Selected for Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2025
in private collection (limited edition print available)
Thinking of everything, 2025
Acrylic and oil on linen
79 × 125cm (framed)
in private collection
Bickering again, 2025
Acrylic and oil on linen
94 × 74cm
in private collection
Trouble sleeping, 2025
Acrylic and oil on linen
103 × 79cm
in private collection
Incorrigibly Plural, 2026
Oil & acrylic on linen
50 × 50cm (open framed)
in private collection
Tilt, 2026
Acrylic and oil on linen
50 × 60cm
in private collection
Swerve, 2026
Acrylic and oil on linen
50 × 60cm
in private collection
Are we out of ketchup?, 2025
Acrylic and oil on linen (diptych),
40 × 80cm (open framed)
in private collection
Hiccups, 2026
Acrylic and oil on linen
25 × 30cm
in private collection
The last bedtime story, 2026
Acrylic and oil on linen
25 × 30cm
in private collection
You do make me laugh, 2025
Acrylic & oil on canvas
25 x 30cm (open framed)
in private collection
Keeping everyone chipper, 2025
Acrylic & oil on linen
50 x 50cm
in private collection
Prams in Hallways, 2023
Acrylic & charcoal on canvas
39 x 28cm
Selected for Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2024
in private collection (available as a hand-finished limited edition print)
The Idea of Goodness (after Carol Shields), 2022
Oil on Gesso Board
30cm x 30cm
Selected for the Royal Academy Summer Show 2023
in private collection (available as a limited edition print)
Good Enough (Blue), 2022
Oil on unbleached linen
76 x 61cm
in private collection (available as a limited edition print)
Good Enough (Green), 2022
Oil on unbleached linen
76 x 61cm
in private collection (available as a limited edition print)
Messy Love, 2023
Oil paint on linen
64 x 54cm
in private collection
Flourishing, 2023
Oil paint & charcoal on linen
54 x 64cm
in private collection
Are we nearly there yet?, 2023
Acrylic on canvas
40 x 40cm
in private collection
Carrying the coats, 2025
Acrylic and oil on linen
25 x 30cm
in private collection
Writing Lists, 2024
Acrylic on linen
22 × 27cm
in private collection
MIddle of the Night To do List IX, 2023
Acrylic on canvas
100 x 100cm
in private collection
It’s like having 200 tabs open in your brain at any given time and switching off might mean losing them all, 2023
Acrylic on board
50 x 50cm
in private collection
The Weight of Small Things, 2023
Oil paint on gesso board
30 x 30cm
in private collection
Bringing the Wrong Snack, 2023
Acrylic on gesso board
36.5 x 36.5cm - in open box framed
in private collection
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