A renowned artist who spent her schooldays in Windermere is the latest talent to have her works displayed in Low Wood Bay’s ‘Art in the Atrium’ gallery.
In partnership with art specialists Gavagan Art, the ‘Buildings in the Landscape’ gallery features some of Kitty North’s most prominent works, including Moonlit Night, her painting of Levens Hall, and The Old Rectory, once home to the English poet John Betjeman.
The Lake District is familiar territory for the artist Kitty North. Born in 1963 in Lancashire, Kitty went to school at Blackwell, the Arts and Crafts house designed by architect Hugh Baillie Scott, and later to St. Anne’s School, Windermere.
In 1998 a solo exhibition of Kitty’s work was held at The Abbot Hall Gallery, Kendal, and in 2010 she was Artist in Residence at Levens Hall, the Elizabethan mansion and famous topiary garden, just south of Kendal.
Kitty lists a number of influences which led her to paint, from being taken as a child to a regional art gallery to see an exhibition of David Hockney’s paintings, and in the same year seeing an exhibition of the British artist J. M. W. Turner. However the overriding and continuing influence on her desire to paint, has been the experience of living in the Northern Landscape.
Kitty studied at Chelsea School of Art , followed by Brighton University. Further studies continued with an MA at Manchester University in 1987.
For the last 27 years, Kitty has lived and worked in Yorkshire, her home and studio are in the village of Arncliffe in the Yorkshire Dales. The village is known by many as the original location for the TV drama Emmerdale Farm and more recently for the filming of the TV series All Creatures Great And Small.
Kitty North’s work has been widely exhibited and collected around the world. Her growing reputation has resulted in a number of prestigious commissions and various projects across the UK. These have included projects at Levens Hall, Bolton Abbey, Chatsworth and Salts Mill Saltaire, where a large exhibition of Kitty’s work Continuum is currently on display.
Other artists whose work has been exhibited as part of the Art in the Atrium exhibition programme.
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