The Ground Fell From My Feet

Kirsty Whyatt | Acrylic on Birch | 11 x 11 inches

“I was born in Lancashire and now live in Yorkshire – my twofold Northerness doesn’t allow a third person.

​Even though I have no formal training as a painter, I have always been a creative, I studied Exhibition Design at Humberside University and for the last twenty-something years I’ve worked as a freelance photographic stylist. Interior styling is pretty much painting pictures with objects, I have a specific crop to work with, composition to work out, objects to place and colours to co-ordinate. On top of this, and the most important, I watch how the photographer uses their studio lights to bring an image to life. There starts my obsession with light.

​For me, the light in a painting is the most important component by far. It brings atmosphere like nothing else and it’s the one thing I constantly strive to get right, if it’s not right, no matter how well I’ve painted everything else, the painting gets binned. I have a half-full bin (it used to be full, so I’m making progress!).

​I picked up the brushes seriously in 2017 when I converted half our single garage into a studio. It’s tiny, but it’s all mine. I can lock the door and I can lose myself. If I could move in, I would.

​I currently live in Leeds.” Katie

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