Kate Nelson is drawn to and moved by the outdoor life. The exuberance of her life (skiing, hiking, sailing — she crewed in the tempestuous 2002 Newport-to-Bermuda Ocean Race) and its contemplative aspect (gardening, animal tracking, yoga) are both mirrored in her lyrical abstract paintings.
                                                                      Nelson’s artistic track is varied, everchanging — like the path of the outgoing tide on the flats in Cape Cod Bay. Holding degrees in pre-medicine and art from the University of Massachusetts, where she was influenced by Chuck Close and Keith Hollingworth; she has studied printmaking and painting on Cape Cod, in Boston at Massachusetts College of Art, and at Haystack Mountain School, Deer Isle, Maine. Recently, a snow-filled month’s residency at the Vermont Studio Center allowed time for quiet meditation, an exquisite openness of perception, and the opportunity for the fusing of the exterior landscape with “inscape,” the inner landscape of psyche and spirit.