2010- 2012 EXHIBITION
Southwold
FOREWORD BY SUSAN BACON
A soft light fills the winter sky. It is late afternoon and I am walking down the beach with Kate Hamilton. It is the place that she has observed everyday since moving here 12 years ago and it is the place that fascinates and delights her - the ever changing world of light and shadow of Sea and Sky that is Southwold. It is a world that she has come to know and love and that she has indeed immersed her life, revelled in and become part of. The sharp afternoon sun picks up the clarity of the distant skylines, snow is on the beach and everywhere there is sharpness. Kate Hamilton’s picutres are like this, they are suffused with acuteness, an acuteness of understanding. Her innate and profound interest in the natural world and all that moves and breathes in it is carefully watched by her eye, as she selects and captures the essence of a place.
INTRODUCTION by IAN COLLINS
We all have our private view of Southwold - the little seaside of global renown that each resident and visitor loves for very personal reasons. But the vision painter Katherine Hamilton goes deeper and broader to embrace so many of our experiences and dreams. In her latest and most ambitious cycle of landscape pictures to date, this intrepid long-distance traveller takes us on a journey of discovery extending no further than four miles from her studio (where she famously tramples pictures underfoot during their prolonger and painstaking evolution).