Kate Nelson
"I work from intuition, from impulse, using physical reflexes honed in hard physical labor and senses sharpened by a life in the outdoors — attuned to the mercurial temperament of Mother Nature. I work to escape the illusion of linear time. Color and gesture transport me, the way I’m transported by the crashing surf at the shoreline. They have for me the same cleansing meditative power."
Painter Kate Nelson is drawn to and moved by the outdoor life. The exuberance of her life (skiing, hiking, sailing) and its contemplative aspect (gardening, yoga, poetry) are both mirrored in her lyrical abstract paintings.
She has studied at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst (there influenced by Chuck Close, Keith Hollingworth, and John Grillo), at Massachusetts College of Art in Boston, at Haystack Mountain School, Deer Isle, Maine and worked in residence at the Vermont Studio Center. Her work is included in the permanent collections of the DeCordova Museum in Lincoln and the Cahoon Museum in Cotuit.