Revolve Gallery

Katie Eveson

Katie Eveson has exhibited her work throughout Lancashire and the Yorkshire Dales.

Background

Katie was born in Nottingham in 1981 and raised on a farm until her family relocated to a sheep farm in Whitewell, in the Ribble Valley, Lancashire where she still lives today with her husband and twins.

Studying at St.Martin’s College in Lancaster, Katie gained a BA (Hons) in Fine Art.

Inspiration

Much the inspiration for the work Katie produces comes from her personal environment and the rural setting in which she lives. Drawing from all aspects of the landscape to create her work Katie uses themes including the structures of farm buildings, wildlife and farming. The main focus being on horned sheep breeds in particular Scottish Blackface and Swaledales.

To Canvas

“I sew my images onto canvas and other heavy fabrics using a sewing machine and onto large scale work by hand. I then paint them using acrylics. The lines that spread out from the animals I call ‘Glory Lines’, I wanted to look at the animals in a different way by taking them away from the background and putting all the focus on them.”

Some of her large scale works include humans but they are always in the background without detail, their presence maintaining a distance from the animal subject. Here the artist is looking at the relationships between humans and farm animals.

Katie feels that sheep in particular have a great connection with us as a nation, they have been the mainstay of our lives for centuries. Cities and economies may no longer depend on the wool trade
that sheep created but their continuing influence is evident in the landscape all around us.