Artworks

Spring Summer Cycle: Painting of cherry blossoms budding on plant branches

Closer | Paintings of 2024

In January 2024, Kate had now been in her cottage in the countryside for a full cycle of the sun. She began painting pale blossoms and petals again, inspired by the blush of light of the petals, breaking through the winter darkness.

Soft, pale painting of a spring of blossom in a pale cream jug, on a white table cloth with scalloped edge hanging over the front the table.
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Winter to Summer Series

Oil paintings on gessoed panels, painted over the course of 6 months, from January to July 2023. Trying to use minimal marks and paint to conjure the effect of fullness and space. Like Vermeer meeting Zen.

Fresh white blossom seems to explode out of the pitch dark background which is the darkest of midnight blues. The blossom seems as if it's held into place with a shiny (yet tarnished) silver vase, yet there are no stems to the branches, just petals and leaves. The vase is placed on the front right of an unfolded white fine cloth which again has no structure of a table coming form under it, but seems to float into the space.
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Held | Solar Cycle Flora Series

A series of oil paintings made in 2022 to capture or 'hold' the phases of the cycle of flowering in response to the earth's journey around the sun and the resulting seasons experienced in the UK.

Oil painting of Cherry Plum in a tarnished silver vase
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Tempo Adagio

A 16 mm music film (as appose to a music video) of the Sacconi Quartet playing Beethoven's String Quartet no. 14 in C♯ minor, Opus 131 | Movement 1: ‘Adagio ma non troppo e molto espressivo’.

Tempo Adagio film still shows a solarised image of a violinist playing
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Mid-Winter Song

A short 16mm film, reflecting on beginnings and endings, using Schubert's ‘Die Winterreise’ piece ‘Der Leiermann’ as initial inspiration.

Grainy image taken form 16mm colour footage of bird's footprints in deep snow
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Applied Pure Series

A series of black and white, digitally enlarged photograms (photographic shadows), displaying the patterns of the natural phenomena found from a human's relationship with water and light.

Photographic close up of ripples in water surface emanating from a single drop
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Applied Pure Film

A six minute artistic documentary film, made by Ewan Golder, about the live water and music event "Applied Pure at the MI | Music & Light Symbiosis No. 3"

Film still shows concentric circle ripples on water suface
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River Song Series

An art exhibition of photograms at the River Garage Studios exploring the interaction of water and light, part of the artist-in-residence in the project ‘Art in the Park | Kearsney Interpreted’ curated by Dover Arts Development (DAD) and commissioned by Dover District Council.

Photogram of the shadow of a swan swimming through water
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Gathering | Souls

Cheriton Light Festival 2018 All Souls Church, Cheriton, Folkestone. Curated by Strange Cargo, Saturday 24th and Sunday 25th February, 6-9pm. Cheriton Light Festival is an annual Winter festival set in Cheriton, Folkestone, the home of Strange Cargo. For the 2018 event, Kate had the idea to quickly make gold cubes and place them in a […]

Close-up photo shows the top of a golden cube illuminated by the interior lights of the church
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Open Mind

Kate laced together photographic stills taken of a burnt cube of oak.  The idea was that the aperture of the camera was fully opened at the beginning of the film and each time the aperture was shut one stop, a shot was taken until there is no light entering the camera. Then it bursts back […]

Open Mind film still shows a burnt cube of oak
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Camera Obscura Refined

Folkestone Fringe ‘Camera Obscura Refined’, Studio 8, 14 Tontine Street, Folkestone, KentSolo Installation, Folkestone Fringe / Folkestone Triennial 2011. During the 2011 Folkestone Triennial, Kate opened up her studio as part of the newly formed Folkestone Fringe. Visitors climbed the 78 stairs to the top studio 8 in the B&B on Tontine Street to be […]

Projection of the camera obscurer (what's outside the space) onto the walls of Kate's studio space showing clouds moving across the sky
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Spring | East | 8mm Film

8mm film | cini film Made for Art in the Romney Marsh in 2011, Spring | East | 8mm was shown in a small, framed screen, set on repeat, in the East of the church and was made to represent birth, the East and spring. 8mm filming and digital editing by Kate Beaugié. © Kate […]

8mm film still shows cherry blossoms on branches of a tree
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