Artist : Kate Walters
Title : How I Was Nourished
Medium : watercolour on paper
Dimensions : 56 x 76 cm


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Kate Walters is a British artist based in Penzance, West Cornwall. Her practice moves fluidly between painting, drawing, writing, and shamanic inquiry. Rooted in the symbolic and the visionary, her work channels inner states and liminal experience - engaging themes of birth, death, transformation, animality, and the maternal. Drawing on Jungian thought, myth, and embodied spiritual practice, Walters’ images often emerge from a process of trance or meditation, where animals, archetypes, and human figures appear as guides or thresholds. Using ink, watercolour, oil and mixed media, her intimate, gestural works possess both delicacy and ferocity - markings of vulnerability and ecstatic knowledge. The work is often diaristic, shaped by dream imagery and the retrieval of unconscious material through ritual, breathwork, and wilderness retreat.

Walters studied Fine Art at Falmouth and Painting at Brighton, later completing an MA at Wimbledon School of Art. Her work has been shown in solo and group exhibitions across the UK and internationally, including at Newlyn Art Gallery, The Royal West of England Academy, Bridport Arts Centre, and the Venice Biennale (2013, with the WW Gallery). She has undertaken residencies at places including the Isles of Iona and Shetland, Hospitalfield, and the Santa Fe Art Institute. Her writing and visual work have been published in EarthLines, Resurgence & Ecologist, and Numéro Cinq.