Kate Boucher’s work is created in response to landscapes that are in some way, transitional. These landscapes are recorded in the liminal states of twilight and daybreak, where the separation seems thinner between the real, the sensed and the remembered. Boucher responds to these landscapes through a drawing and making practice, exploring this tension between the sensed and the known.

She records these complex responses to her chosen landscapes through intense study, habitual practices and serial working, travelling through them, on repeated and habitual routes. Procedures created by her for each site, outline methods for recording through sketchbooks, photography and drawing.

Each piece in a series attempts to better express or expose the underlying reason, whilst lost in thought and immersed in the landscape, her attention might have been drawn to one thing over another. The works are not intended to be portraits of a place but rather to capture a more universal, emotive response to landscape.

Kate studied at Chelsea School of Art in the early 1990s, graduating from West Dean College with a Master of Fine Art 2016. She is a QEST Scholar and has received several awards. Her work has been exhibited with that of David Nash RA, Alice Kettle and Mathew Burrows and held in private collections internationally.

She is the author of Drawing with Charcoal, The Crowood Press Ltd. and is working on a second book launching in 2024.