Mccavitt Kate (1 results)

Softcover. Condition: Like New. A catalog of works; about 30 pages. Kate McCavitt is an Asian informed Mixed Media Abstract Painter. Trained as a Sumie artist, often called ?Chinese Brush?, and self-taught in other mixed media genres, Kate lavishes all of her color-rich, surface-detailed, touchably-textured paintings with the subtleties of Asian tradition and a discipline of ?no shortcuts? Rich wash layers of transparent fluid acrylics build color and the isolation coats of gloss varnishes capture between them both the random events of experimental techniques, and iconic symbols from Zen circles and representational foil spheres hand embossed by the artist, to majestic mountains, deep reflective lakes and gold-leafed aspen and ancient Druidic oak trees. Her signature use of metallic gessos for outlining surface details, creates a cloisonné effect, informed by ancient techniques for compartmentalized (cloisons in French) enamel on metals. Signed by Author. …