Kate Giles is best known for her powerful and expressive oil landscapes of her beloved East Anglia. Giles looks back for inspiration to our great masters of the golden age of landscape painting, from Rembrandt and Ruisdael, to Crome and Constable, but takes it beyond the literal, where paint becomes at once a means for describing what the eye sees and the heart feels. ‘Painting is another word for feeling.’ (John Constable).

We see vigour and vitality in Giles’s work, capturing nature in all its flux and stillness. Starting with drawing en plein air, the finished works are paintings infused with feeling. Often the same place is painted again and again from different angles in different seasons.

Kate Giles grew up in the heart of the city of Norwich. Having read English at Oxford, she trained at Camberwell and Falmouth Schools of Art. She has exhibited regularly ever since, particularly in London and East Anglia but also internationally. Her work can be found in numerous public and private collections in the UK and abroad (Aviva; Britten Pears Library; Banc Sabadall; Aldeburgh Music). Exhibitions have arisen from a variety of residencies and commissions (e.g. The National Theatre, The Whitechapel Bell Foundry, The Kazan Cathedral, St Petersburg). From 2005 she was based in Suffolk (Butley Mills Studios), returning to work and live permanently in Norfolk in 2015. Most notably, her work was hung alongside that of Constable, Turner, Creffield and Kossoff at the Salisbury Museum 2016-17 (‘Constable in context: Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows in perspective’). Her recent exhibition ‘Flux’  at Gallery East in Suffolk was accompanied by a catalogue whose excellent foreword was written by Andrew Graham-Dixon, in which he concludes Kate’s work is ‘rich territory to explore.’