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Kate Bentley SWA
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Kate Bentley S.W.A. is an multi award-winning professional painter based in the English Lake District.
She is an elected member of the Society of Women Artists and The Lakes Artists Society and her work is held in both private and public collections.
When time and Covid 19 allows Kate runs private painting workshops in the Lyth Valley in the Southern Lake District.
Kate has broad teaching experience and has been teaching for 25 years and in the past has worked for painting holiday specialists Authentic Adventures, Solo Holidays and P&O Cruises.
PROFESSIONAL LIFE
Kate Bentley S.W.A.
In the studio Kate usually works from her imagination often referring to sketches from en-plein air expeditions
“Studio paintings are often conceived by a series of random mark making. Subconscious underlying themes and memories of seasons, light conditions, smells etc often emerge. En plein-air expeditions and life drawing/studies act as resource training exercises to aid with this process”
As well as exhibiting her work in a number of smaller galleries throughout the country Kate’s regularly shows work in a number of larger respected venues including:
The Royal Institute of Watercolour Artists,
The Royal Watercolour Society,
The Mall Galleries
The Society of Women Artists
Edinburgh and Manchester Art Fairs
Recent Prizes, Awards & Memberships
2020- Awarded Second Prize -The Upfront Open Exhibition, Upfront Gallery, Penrith
2019-Awarded First Prize -The Upfront Open Exhibition, Upfront Gallery, Penrith
2018- The John Entwistle People’s Choice Award-Lakes Artist Summer Exhibition
2018-Awarded ‘The Private View Prize’-The Cumbrian Open Exhibition ,Upfront Gallery ,Penrith.
2017-The John Entwistle People’s Choice Award-Lakes Artist Summer Exhibition.
2017- Awarded-Lancashire Life's Landscape Artist of the Year
2017-Prize Winner ‘2nd’ The Cumbrian Open Exhibition ,Upfront Gallery ,Penrith.
2016-‘HRH Princess Michael of Kent Watercolour Award’-Mall Galleries ,London.
2014- Awarded associate membership to the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists
2014- Awarded Full membership to The Society of Women Artists, London.
2013-Prize-winner at the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists ‘Annual Prize Exhibition’
2013- Awarded associate membership to the The Society of Women Artists, London.
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