Kate Montgomery

Kate Montgomery was born in 1965 and trained at The Ruskin School of Drawing & Fine Art, Oxford University (1985 – 1988) and at The Royal College of Art (1990 – 1992).

Since the 1990’s she has taught part time at Central St Martins, Northbrook College (University of Brighton) and on UAL Foundation Course in Art & Design whilst maintaining her painting career and raising three daughters.

Kate shows her work mainly with Long & Ryle Gallery London.

Sources for her drawings and paintings are found walking in the Sussex countryside, running by the sea, and the interiors and gardens of Georgian and Victorian houses and museums in Brighton and Hove. Kate’s language of paint and image is informed by the visual culture of the Middle Ages, French and Flemish Books of Hours and cloisonne work in particular. Kate also has a deep love and interest in European Symbolist painting, Art Nouveau and The Arts and Crafts Movement. 

Kate also has a compulsive sketchbook habit!  Often drawing in stations, on trains etc,  finding and reworking images that are stored and retrieved for the making of finished pen and ink drawings and paintings in casein. ‘I will argue for both the therapeutic value of drawing, and it’s key role in intuitively capturing, rehearsing and editing potential imagery across all forms of visual creativity and communication.’