Coffs Harbour
Kathryn Fenton has an expressive application to her paintings, often using mixed media to create spontaneity and energy with her landscapes and figurative work. Her still life’s are often full of allegory and symbolism.
Artworks: 42
Kathryn Fenton has two Art Diplomas and has been an exhibiting artist for over 25 years. Her background in filmmaking has had considerable influence over the years portraying narrative in her work, particularly in her still lifes reflecting contemporary society.
She is often motivated to experiment with various mediums to form textural layers of underlying images that create subtext.
A lot of her landscape work is allegorical and she particularly likes to represent the ethereal light that comes with the dawn and upon dusk and big sweeping skies and horizons in general. They set the stage for the drama and backdrops for her figures woven into the landscape in an abstracted form.
Kathryn loves the viewer to be left with questions or a takeaway story to ponder. She spends many hours doing research before preliminary sketches. It may be an idea from a piece of poetry, mythology or ancient history, or from her own photography. In recent years she has been preoccupied with 17th and 18th European painting, particularly the Baroque, Neoclassical and Rococo eras.
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