Treasure, I'm Still Here

Kate's gum trees, her treasures, offer her endless inspiration. On completing this painting, she asked her Instagram followers to give her words to describe it. Kate was interested in checking if people actually see what she is trying to create or have a different perspective. Her followers suggested these words: fog, spooky, ghost, stillness, reaching, calm and ethereal. Together they describe the wonderful atmosphere Kate has created in this large painting. She painted a softly gradated pale pastel sky and used a mix of brush strokes, palette knife and fluid paint pouring to represent the infinite textures of the branch. This painting is part of Kate's 'Treasure' series which is her contribution to the long history of tree portraiture.

-Artist quality acrylic paint on 10oz. triple primed cotton duck canvas

-Unframed, ready to hang or choose a hand-crafted frame at checkout

-180 x 100 x 4cm, unframed, ready to hang

-Signed Certificate of Authenticity and signed on the front

-Carefully packaged in bubble wrap and recycled cardboard so it arrives safely, ready for you to enjoy

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Kate Wise's acrylic paintings are a celebration of the beauty she finds in nature. Kate plays with scale and negative space and creates sumptuous colour palettes to produce harmonious yet lively compositions. If you need more of these things in your life, welcome, you are in the right place!

Kate is an acrylic painter living on Wadawurrung country just outside Ballarat, Victoria. She says 'nature is an inspiring force' and it drives her creation of calm, feminine and flowing paintings that are original, fresh and lively.

You can enjoy Kate's work as vibrant landscapes, abstracts and florals, but in her current series of works, she is inviting you to delve a little deeper, as she explores the psychological terrain of landscape painting. Kate believes that the capacity to observe the complexities of nature, draw meaning and experience self-growth and renewal, are gifts that painting offers both the artist and the viewer.

Kate has been a full-time artist for 5 years, regularly joins group exhibitions, has won several local art prizes and enjoys participating in local community and public art projects. Kate's work is held in private collections across Australia and overseas.