About Kate Nelson

Statement

What do I search for in my work? A state of mind beyond control, a dance celebrating the great and fearful range of human feeling, a connection between nature and the nature within. My love of Jazz improvisation (rooted in a firm structure yet free to soar), my struggle to maintain the sit or the pose in my meditative practices, and my long history of physical labor in the harsh outdoors — all these influence my hand as it finds and frees the colors, the shifting shapes, the gestural marks that over decades have become my painterly vocabulary.

 

Biography

Painter Kate Nelson is drawn to and moved by the outdoor life.

She has studied at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst (there influenced by Chuck Close, Keith Hollingworth, and John Grillo), at Massachusetts College of Art, at Haystack Mountain School on Deer Isle, Maine and worked in residence at the Vermont Studio Center. Her work is in the permanent collection of the DeCordova Museum in Lincoln, MA; the Cahoon Museum in Cotuit, MA and in numerous corporate and private collections, including Sony and Pfizer USA, Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, and Cape Cod Healthcare.

Nelson creates her lyrical abstract works in her barn-studio in Brewster on Cape Cod in Massachusetts.