Kate Measham

Visual Artist

Kate Measham, co-owner of Hampshire Art Studio, has been teaching and running courses in Hampshire for over 20 years. Working in oils and a variety of drawing materials, her work is largely figurative, encompassing landscape, still life, and the human form.

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One of her key interests is capturing the passage of time within a single, immobile, two-dimensional image. This can take the form of a subject painted multiple times with subtle variations or an image that evolves and shifts over several days.

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Her still lifes explore movement and the histories of objects, often featuring the same items repeatedly. She frequently re-draws and studies compositions from Old Masters, reworking and reinterpreting them. Layers of drawings, rubbed down and reworked, create a palimpsest effect, where the ghost of a previous image adds depth and a sense of time to her work.