2013 - 2016 Exhibition
Landscape Journeys Inside and Out
Foreword
By Dick Pope
As a cinematographer, exactly what excites and attracts me to Katherine Hamilton’s paintings could be perceived as fairly obvious… they are most cinematic. Bathed in beautiful and apt light whether it be twilight, night, dawn, sunrise, sunset or that ‘magic hour’ following the setting of the sun, her perfect compositions captured effortlessly within the frame are always quietly observed from a very natural point of view.
But the other reason I so admire her work is because the films I shoot are about storytelling and Katherine is certainly a very fine storyteller. Each and every one of her paintings confirms this. They all tell a story, lightly atmospheric in tone here, mysteriously and darkly brooding there, fleetingly observed or meticulously studied but always reeling me in with their underlying narrative, their calming affirmation and global celebration of people and places across the planet.
Introduction: The Drama of Shape
by Andrew Lambirth
Katherine Hamilton is a dedicated traveller, pursuing her wanderlust as far as New Mexico and Guatemala, but also traversing the British Isles in her search for places which move her. Yet however far she roams, it is always with renewed enthusiasm that she returns to her Suffolk studio, invigorated with the spirit of new places. She reminds me of GK Chesterton who famously maintained that the whole point of travel was to be able to come back home refreshed, to see the familiar with new eyes.
