Kate Trafeli is an American-British painter and curator currently based in London, UK. She makes her works in a north London studio held by arts charity Collage Arts. You can view a video of Kate in studio below and read a brief interview about her on Kate’s tutor page. 

Colour synesthesia, symbols/shapes and visible brushstrokes evoke mood and narrative in Kate's works. The fragments visible in her paintings originate out of many avenues: literature and music, architecture, light’s effect on the picture plane. Her practice is grounded in moments and histories from her own and others’ lives, expressed through abstraction and mark making. Kate's paintings seem familiar and yet otherworldly, with the representational components providing touchstones for the viewer while evading definite answers. The resulting ‘story-pictures’ create an immersive environment, a resonance between the viewer and the work. 

Kate shows her work in solo and group shows with well regarded galleries and agents, as well as at The London Art Fair, AAF and SaatchiArt 'The Other Art Fair' in London, Los Angeles and New York. Kate welcomes and has created numerous large-scale commissions. 

“What drives me to paint are a lot of compelling factors, both internally and emotionally, it could be dreams or experiences, but often its memory and things I’m trying to work through in my own life that start to emerge in the paintings – a lot of the symbolic paintings have those elements in the them…things like home, distance, longing”