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Katy Blunt

Katy Blunt at work

Katy Blunt: This dish is fired with two glazes in different shades of blue and measures about 20 cm in diameter. It is safe for food but probably not the dishwasher. Price is £15

Katy Blunt: This is a piece of work made from fabric and based on a still life of flowers and vases. The samples came from Jane Churchill which my Mum gave me from her bottom draw as the course that this painting came from with Jan Munro was on her birthday. The collage is framed with an attractive white wooden frame and measures 66cm high x 50cm wide. The picture is glazed and the price is £150

Katy Blunt: This painting of donkeys is hanging in an office in Whitchurch surgery. It was painted in Normandy and is acrylic on canvas with a wooden frame. Apparently it has been much admired ! Not for Sale.

Katy Blunt: This is a beautiful watercolour painting of irises and measures 40cm wide x 50cm high. Including the frame it measures 66cm x 70 cm high. The frame is a wooden carved one and is painted gold. The price is £275

Katy Blunt: This is a collage I made on a course run by Jan Munro and involved making stencils on coloured paper, printing to get interesting textures and colours , using negative and positive shapes to make a dynamic composition and collaging the made papers to make the piece of work. The collage is framed with a thin black frame and is glazed. It is the same dimensions as the Flower collage 50cm wide and 65cm high. Priced at £150

Katy Blunt: This rooster is painted in Acrylic on canvas and is on a square canvas which measures 40cm square. Priced at £65

Katy Blunt: This is the beach in Mothercombe, near Plymouth in Devon painted en plain air with a beautiful wooden frame. The painting is on canvas and is acrylic paint. Price £250

Katy Blunt: This is a charming painting of my niece when she was six doing a handstand on the beach at Boscombe in Devon. It is attractively framed in a wooden frame and has been a popular image for my cards, which I sell of my paintings. The painting is acrylic on canvas board and measures 70cm x 55cm. It is framed in a distressed white painted wooden frame. Price £250

Katy Blunt: This painting has been sold but I included it as it is so nice. I have cards available of this image which was painted in situ one summer at 8.30am in the morning in Noss Mayo, Devon of the river and it goes down to the sea. It is square and painted in acrylic. Framed in a white box frame. It was exhibited at the Bucks Museum art Aylesbury for Bucks Art Week local talent show.

Katy Blunt: This is a fun painting of the fenders tied up at Noss Mayo made slightly abstract with the bright colours that they are, using texture. The painting is on a square canvas measuring 40cm each way and 5cm deep. the price is £150

Katy Blunt: Measuring 70cm x 60 including a 5cm distressed wood frame this canvas is in acrylic on canvas board and depicts Bosham quay at low tide. The price is £275

Katy Blunt: This is a lovely painting that I have had a few years and shows the small sailing boats in the poole in Noss Mayo, Devon gently rocking in the tide. It is acrylic on canvas board and measures 60cm x 50cm including a 5cm wooden distressed white painting frame. Price £250

Katy Blunt: This is a beautiful textured and colourful painting of a detail of Thorne House garden in Devon. We went to visit as a family and they gave us all a lovely tea, there were 12 of us and the children - 5 of them, had their own table. It was pouring with rain, but the garden still looked beautiful, with many huge trees and unusual plants. The painting is acrylic on canvas board and has a distressed white wooden painted frame,5cm wide, and measuring 50cm x 60cm landscape. Priced at £ 250

Katy Blunt: This is a fun painting based on the trawlers in Plymouth and all the machinery there. It is acrylic on canvas board and shows the trawlers moored up ready to unload their fish. It is framed by a white painted wooden frame 5cm wide and is approximately 50cm high and 60cm wide. priced at £250, this painting is currently on show at a rental cottage in Noss Mayo owned by my brother.

Katy Blunt: This is a popular Christmas card design and I have sold the original but have another available to purchase. It depicts my parents' sheep in the snow and is acrylic on canvas unframed measuring 45cm x 35cm high. priced at £65

Katy Blunt: This restful painting is of the boats on the shore of Newton Ferrers, near Plymouth in Devon. I have had many happy days there and know it well. The painting measures 50cm square and is acrylic paint on canvas which is 5cm deep. Price is £150

Katy Blunt: Easter chickens painting in acrylic on canvas board, this quirky picture is fun and colourful. measuring 45cm wide x 35cm high priced at £65

Katy Blunt: This is a pastel painting from a rehearsal of the English National ballet in Milton Keynes Theatre where we were invited to draw the dancers. The strength and physicality of the ballet dancers comes through in the picture by the bold colourful mark making and abstract quality of the work. It had come full circle as I worked for the English National Ballet when I was studying for my Theatre Design degree at St Martins college of art. Price £250. measurements in white frame with white border behind glass 70cm wide x 59cm high. White border 10cm image 50cm x 40 cm

Katy Blunt: This painting was made of an evening view down the estuary in Noss Mayo, Devon. The pink of the sand catches on the light and it was a very successful piece. It is beautifully framed in a wooden silver frame and measures 54cm x44cm with a 5cm frame included. The price is £250

Art Forms

Ceramics, Painting

Exhibition and News

I will be exhibiting with Winslow and District Art Society this May bank holiday 24th and 25th May 11.00- 4pm daily in the Public Hall in Winslow and showing new paintings and pottery and cards. There will be about 100 paintings on display and entry is free so do come along – also a raffle and refreshments and cake ! I am number 39 and 37 in the Bucks Art Week catalogue this year and will be exhibiting in the Church St Swithun’s with some friends, Alex Wright, Ruth Marsden and Nigel Hawthorn. There are 4 exhibitions on in Swanbourne from 14th – 21st June with an art trail to visit them all. It is also Swanbourne Fete on the Saturday 14th. Exhibitions are in the Village Hall, Church, Shoot room and Brises Farm. Winslow Art Society will also be having an exhibition in November .

Biography

I studied at Kingston Polytechnic for my Foundation course then went to Central Saint Martins for a hons degree in Theatre Design and then did a Masters in Fine Art and philosophy at The Slade School Fine Art at University College London. I started my career as a theatre designer then became an art teacher having done a PGCE in Secondary Art at The Roehampton Institute . Having moved to Buckinghamshire where I am from from London I worked for RTB for 8 years helping with get-ins for the Twickenham rugby, Boat show, Wimbledon, things at the NEC and Christmas trees in London hotels, making fake presents by papering boxes ! I got to do some flower arranging which I enjoyed, also topiary pruning, using my design skills. I worked at the Winslow Centre in Winslow as a cleaner for 7 years , but kept painting in my spare time, and still clean the Conservative office on a Saturday morning, which I have done for 8 years. I spent 7 years working for the NHS, doing art therapy as a Peer Tutor, which was fun and very rewarding seeing people come out of their shells and be creative. I now have my own business selling cards, pottery and paintings. I exhibit regularly and had 2 very successful exhibitions in Wendover at The Little Bird Told Me Gallery which both nearly sold out. Before this I also exhibited at The Queen’s Park Centre, which I sold lots at , too. I am an active member of Winslow and district art society. I have been doing Bucks Art Weeks since the 90’s when I was a student, thirty years ago. I have exhibited in London in various locations. I was commended for an entry to The Summer Exhibition at the Royal Academy, but it didn’t get accepted sadly, although it was very large ! For the last 3 years I have made pottery at the Queens Park Centre, which is a great place, I have been going there for years. My pots sell surprisingly well as do my cards, which are made from my favourite paintings. Sometimes I sell a painting ! I try to keep them affordable to everyone.

A professional ceramist came to a show I had in Swanbourne church a few years ago and said ” Katy your pots have a rustic charm and you are an aspiring potter” which I was quite pleased about.

I have always painted from a child and love the use of colour in my work. My friend John Tydeman says “they have a vitality and an innocence which is quite beguiling” which I thought was nice.

Contact

You can contact me by email on katyblunt@icloud.com or phone 0780 358 1745

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