Katherine Surridge

Through the act of painting and video making I am interested in working with ideas of place, boundaries, movement, transformation and story. I use symbols and structures that combine figurative and architectural forms with nature. 

At the first stage of a painting I draw iconic shapes that establish a visual foundation and structure. When the layers of oil paint build and marks are added the shapes transform and a story develops i.e. a house becomes a gravestone, a fence turns into a grid, gate, cage or carpet, abstract shapes become figures.  The changes made to my original drawn structure parallel my thoughts on what this development will be about.  But my main concern at this stage of the painting is the process itself. As the marks lead the way a level of trust occurs and the elements expand to reveal my concerns with home, family, community, relationships, loss, death and entrapment. This is where the personal becomes the universal.   

Katherine Surridge

 

Artist Work
Earth Report 6
60 in x 60 in
oil on canvas

$9000 CDN

Artist Work
Spring Forward
72 in x 72 in
oil on canvas

$12900 USD

Artist Work
Answer
18 in x 24 in
oil on canvas

$1080 USD

Artist Work
Earth Report 1
42 in x 42 in
oil on canvas

$4400 CDN

Artist Work
Earth Report 2
42 in x 42 in
oil on canvas

$4400 CDN

Artist Work
Earth Report 9
72 in x 132 in
oil on canvas

$23700 CDN

Artist Work
MC 13
24 in x 24 in
oil & graphite on canvas

$1400 CDN

Artist Work
MC 12
24 in x 24 in
oil & graphite on canvas

$1400 CDN

Artist Work
MC 20
30 in x 30 in
oil & graphite on canvas

$1900 CDN