Recent Exhibitions:
Summertime Hues - West Vancouver Library Aug 15 - Oct 9, 2023
Tiny Art Holiday Show - West Vancouver Library Dec 2021- Jan 6, 2022
North Van Arts - You Are Here Calendar & Touring Exhibition - 2021
Surfacing - Hearth Gallery -August 2020
Saving Sea to Sky- Hearth Gallery -July 2020
North Van Arts -Rental Show - September 2020
Rust Winery - Oliver BC - Artist in Residence & Exhibition - Summer/fall 2020 - ongoing
2019
Conceal and Reveal: Solo Exhibition - Hearth Gallery
Gallery at The Cultch: 2-person show
Canvas Unbound –FCA Gallery Online
It’s a Wrap – Group Exhibit – Gallery @ Cove Commons
Solo Show, Artist in Residence – Rust Winery, Oliver, BC
Painting on the Edge – FCA Gallery Online
Wearable Arts Show – The Gallery @ Cove Commons
2018
Solo Show - The Kube Studios, Gibsons, BC
Bloom - FCA Gallery, Granville Island, BC
Photobase: Re-imagined Memories - Cityscape Gallery, N Vancouver, BC
Abstracted - FCA Gallery, Granville Island, BC
Art Rental Exhibition- Art Rental Program: Cityscape Gallery, North Vancouver, BC
2017
Marked by Time/2 person Exhibit - Silk Purse Gallery, W. Vancouver, BC
Edge and Form/3 Person Exhibit - Ferry Building Gallery, W. Vancouver, BC
Life Coastal/3 Person Exhibit - BIAC Gallery, Bowen Island, BC
A B O U T k a t h l e e n
Kathleen has studied and created fine art, costumes, and textile arts for over 35 years. She works with a variety of media and techniques including painting, photography, sculpture and textiles.
Early studies at Emily Carr University led Kathleen to work in props and costuming for a variety of dance, TV and film productions. Her education at Capilano University includes diplomas in studio arts, textile arts, and ceramics. She actively creates, exhibits and teaches in these areas, a natural progression for her many years of art practice. These experiences inspire a deeper connection to her creative process.
She is co-owner of Catching Stars Cooperative Gallery on Bowen Island and her work is represented there. Kathleen offers mixed media art workshops through the Hearth - Arts on Bowen where she works as their program coordinator.
Kathleen has participated in a number of group and solo exhibitions and her works are in collections internationally. For two years, she was a featured artist at Rust Wine Co. in Oliver, BC. and wasthe featured artist for the Bowen Island Community Foundation for 2020 - 2022
ARTIST'S STATEMENT
Impermanence and the cycles of nature are my inspiration. In these pieces, one might sense a hidden divine presence within the work. Felt but not necessarily seen. A painting may begin with a thought, emotion or feeling and the first layers are a beginning point for the process of painting. As it progresses, new relationships between colour, shape, line, texture and space are revealed and concealed in new forms. It is a series of decisions, a dance, and a conversation that continues until the painting takes on a wholeness of existence.
These works are inspired by the relationship between industry and nature, and the juxtaposition between nature and the built environment. My works have a focus on impermanence, memory, life cycles and the passage of time, with the use of natural and architectural forms, layered and abstracted, to interpret those concepts - covering, uncovering, containing, fracturing, reconstructing, sometimes obliterating. A palimpsest is created where traces of what is under the surface remain visible. What is concealed feels sacred.
Kika dardot photo
© Kathleen Ainscough 2017 - 2024