Bio

Katharine Turner Mays http://katharineTurnerMays.com  b.1964 is a British American artist who currently lives in Texas.

At the heart of Katharine’s apparent impulsion to paint, is a joyeous flow towards balancing the material energy and the ephemeral energy.

There is a deep love for the Christ and Mary energetic transmission as iconic art in egg tempra.. Studying the Dessert Fathers Coptic Iconography, Gnosticism, Sufism and Aboriginal Australian art noticing how they all depict What Is and What is not i.e.Empty Fullness that the separate egoic self cannot see or understand, yet something transformative can occur from gazing into this type of work.

The figurative paintings have an expressionistic use of line and psychological acumen.

Flora and fauna is painted and covered over with sfumato.

Katharine began painting in oil, at nine, mentored by her grandfather.

A professional painter by 21, her mentor the mystic Cecil Collins died in 1989, she never met him, Dr.David Cranswick a student of Cecil Collins was her old masters teacher from 1997-2000. Another link to Cecil Collins was spiritual teacher and artist Rupert Spira who deeply influenced her apparent inner life from 2016 to present day.

From 2000 to 2008 Katharine worked and taught solely in burnt umber and white. From 2008 to 2018 she changed her colour palette to phthalow blue and white. In 2020 she added skin tone to the work.

Katharine has been shown in exhibitions in London, Australia and the U.S., including “15 Heads of Christ”, a solo show at The River Bend Church Art Gallery, Austin, Texas. Three of her paintings were featured at the Diocese of Austin Fine Arts Gallery, Texas.