I started drawing my environment as a child to help me process and connect to the world around me and translate what felt confusing and overwhelming into a language I could understand.
Diagnosed with autism and severe dyslexia at the age of 6, I struggled with schoolwork but excelled in art, achieving A* in GCSE and A-level, and gaining the art achievement award. I went on to study Contemporary Fine Art at York St. John University and to everyone’s surprise, (including my own!), graduated with a First Class Honours degree.
After years of exploring various artistic genres, I realise that I need to embrace the fact that I see things in immense detail and have a natural ability to draw freehand with accuracy. By doing this, I am working with my autism and not against it. I work with the vibrant yet earthly tones of oil paints to create detailed paintings inspired by nature, along side my paintings, I create, pen drawings to capture dramatic and detailed nature of my urban environment.
by Katie
drawn by katie
