Katharine is a Canadian artist based in Victoria, British Columbia. Working primarily in acrylics, she creates vibrant figurative paintings that explore themes informed by social theory. Her work investigates the objectified gaze and social ritual, using gesture, pattern, and dress as visual languages through which identity, perception, and power are negotiated. Layers of expectation and memory are projected onto these interactions, suggesting that what remains unsaid—or unseen—holds as much significance as what is revealed. In her tableaux, virtue and vice reside not within the figures themselves, but in the social and psychological spaces that surround them.

Katharine holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from University of Victoria and a Bachelor of Architecture from University of British Columbia. She has been painting and drawing for more than 25 years, and her recent return to Victoria has renewed her engagement with the medium.

Her work has been exhibited extensively throughout British Columbia, including exhibitions at Gage Gallery in 2022 and 2023, as well as numerous juried exhibitions. Selected works have been featured in the Sooke Fine Arts Show, including The Blue Room (2022), Tea and the Lone Wolf Story (2020), and Diamond Chair and the Boho Dress (2019). Her painting Social Theory, Diamond Chair received a Patron’s Award at the Saanich Peninsula Arts and Crafts Society Show, while Gaze was exhibited in the Sidney Fine Art Show in 2019. Katharine has also participated in the Hills to Shore Artists Tour and the Jingle Mingle presented by the BC Cancer Foundation.