Katie Mawson
"Gleanings"
19 - 28 June 2026
Katie Mawson is a collage artist with a strong background in textiles. She works with the cloth from discarded, damaged hardback books from local charity shops, using the cloth from these books as both her palette and canvas. The array of colours is infinite, many of them faded and marked through time…. they all have a former life and story.
Mawson slices, cuts and rips these beautifully marked and faded cloths from their boards; this is all part of the making process - deconstructing to then reconstruct into something new. She adds no colour to the covers, but sometimes experiments with mark making and removing colour, creating lines and texture. For her it is all about colour balance, positive and negative spaces and creating a sense of peace.
She lives in the Lake District and wild swims at sunrise throughout the year; the quietness and calmness of these swims, along with the changes in weather and seasons, inform her work, as does the aging process within more urban environments; she likes to juxtapose the beauty of urban decay and dereliction with the purity or nature.
Katie Mawson, Tales of colour, 28 x 31cm copy, (click here to view / purchase via online gallery)
Katie Mawson, Patina of time 28 x 31cm , (click here to view / purchase via online gallery)
Katie Mawson, Soft echoes web 28 x 31 cm , (click here to view / purchase via online gallery)
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