Kate Osborne Watercolours
I studied textile design and watercolour on the south coast of England from1972 to 1976 and, following this, worked for two London textile
studios as a floral designer. In 1979 I went to live in Los
Angeles where I freelanced, doing production ready artwork for
various manufacturers.
I then decamped to a shack in Madrid, New Mexico, an old
coal mining town, painting wildlife and botanical subjects,
selling through the Canyon Road Gallery in Santa Fe.
I returned home in 1984, where I began illustrating for books,
magazines and advertising, as well as continuing with textile
design.
Clients have included Sainsbury's, London Transport and Mitchell
Beazley.
Since having a family, I have returned to my real love, painting, and now work
very freely and richly in watercolour, with the minimum of compositional
drawing; this gives the paintings an unpremeditated look, which
attempts to express the beautiful but transitory nature of the
subject matter - fruit , flowers, vegetables and, more recently,
animals and bugs.
As well as originals, I now produce high quality giclée prints of an exceptional
standard, making them faithful and collectable reproductions of the original
paintings. Printed using the finest Fine Art watercolour paper by Hahnemühle
(genuine mould-made 100% rag) using seven colour UltraChrome pigment inks.All
are signed by me and come in either open editions or limited editions of 150