b. 1972, UK. Lives and works in North Wales, UK

“In experiencing places, we simultaneously encounter two closely related but different landscapes. The one lying beneath our feet, […] the other is the perceived landscape, consisting of sensed and remembered accounts.” Muir.R.

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 practice, using charcoal on paper, exploring this tension between the sensed and the known.

She travels through her chosen landscapes on repeated routes and pathways, recording her complex responses with sketchbooks and photography to bring back to her studio. Each piece in a series attempts to better express or expose the underlying reason why, 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.

Boucher 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.

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