Katy McIntyre Brown (b.1968)

Katy McIntyre Brown (b.1968)
Holyhock
Signed (lower right)
Oils on parchment
Unframed 100 x 60cm

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Katy McIntyre Brown has been painting the natural world around her for over twenty years.

With a Masters Degree in Textile Design, Katy combines her love of painting and plants with her love of fabrics to offer ecological and natural textiles and wall designs. Katy created the floral backdrop for the award winning Horatio's Garden stand at RHS Chelsea this year and has also created designs for hospital walls at Southampton General and the Royal United Hospital, Bath.

Katy is also one of the art therapists working with Horatio's Garden patients. Her journey from psychologist to artist and textile designer weaves through the Somerset countryside, the Kenyan bush and the Test Valley in Hampshire. Katy paints in oils and acrylics on parchment and uses her knowledge of how mental health is affected by art and nature to create paintings and fabrics that bring a feeling of serenity.

This study of a Hollyhock is painted in oils on parchment and was painted using a subject so tall that it touched the roof of her studio. Katy paints from life wherever possible as she feels that the final painting conveys the character, structure and stature of the plant so wonderfully, but that this approach also offers its challenges as flowers insist on continuing to blooming as they are painted. She often finds herself painting into the night to finish botanical studies before her flowers change beyond recognition.