Kate Montgomery is a British painter born in 1965. She graduated from The Ruskin School of Drawing & Fine Art in 1988 and The Royal College of Art in 1992.
Sources for her paintings are found walking in the Sussex countryside, running by the sea, and the interiors and gardens of Georgian and Victorian houses and museums in Brighton and Hove. Her language of paint and image is informed by the visual culture of the Middle Ages, French and Flemish Books of Hours and Cloisonné work in particular. Kate also has a deep love and interest in European Symbolist painting, Art Nouveau and The Arts and Crafts Movement.
Her paintings often suggest interior spaces associated with female responsibility, creativity and desire - silent houses with children outside, workrooms……. a costume gallery. Real time and space are avoided, permitting personal histories and fictions to be read.
Kate has had numerous solo exhibitions at London Galleries and her work has been shown in Europe, Asia and USA Her work is regularly selected for open exhibitions including The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, ING Discerning Eye, The Hunting Prize and The Sussex Contemporary. In 2008 she was artist in residence at Glyndebourne.