Kate Boxer is a painter and print maker working in Sussex. Having trained as an artist in London in the early 1990’s she has returned to Sussex where she has been working as a fine artist ever since, exhibiting in many galleries nationwide.
Kate’s work focuses on the eccentric nature of both animals and humans, often blurring the lines between the two, giving animals human qualities and vice versa. Her subjects range from famous individuals (Queen Victoria, Dick Turpin and Daphne Du Maurier to name but a few) to various animals - dogs, wolves, rabbits - all of which are given the same iconic status as the human ‘celebrities’ in her work, the large scale wolf images are both menacing and comedic, her portraits are simple yet full of character and wit endearing the subject to the viewer. The filmmaker Bruno Wolheim said that Kate’s animals come “from a fierce understanding of their innate spirit. The snake, bison, or sand-bird are above all themselves, they express their own independence and individuality, with all the implicit comic tragedy… they are free.”
Her drypoint’s often feature hand coloured and hand worked areas in mediums such as oil pastels or gouache leaving textures and depth to the piece and making each piece unique in it’s own right. All prints are also limited edition and hand signed.