New Artist | Kathleen Cottell
Posted by Kim Soep on
Kathleen Cottell is the latest addition to our artist roster and we couldn't be more thrilled!
Cottell is an artist working across printmaking and ceramics. Drawn to the quiet magic of nature and the mysteries it holds, she crafts worlds where the real and the imagined are at one together.
Born in 1956 in Nigeria, Africa, Cottell speaks of how lucky she was to spend her youth "wandering under the blue skies of many African countries." Her interest in the animal kingdom and the relationship between humans and other animals, especially horses, are inherent in Cottell's work. She says, "I feel the need to create another world of ordered space, quiet, mysterious and dreamy, based on reality but with a different dimension. I have to express an empathy with nature, with the landscape, with animals and people, to describe their beauty, their fragility, their vulnerability and also their power."
Cottell lives in Cornwall. In 2003, she gained a BA Fine Art Printmaking from Falmouth School of Art. Her work is held in the collection of the University of Exeter and in numerous private collections. In 2020, she completed a series of 14 etchings titled Stations of the Cross for St. Andrew’s Church in Redruth.
To view her collection of monotypes, click here.