Arts & Frames by Wood Gallery

KATE MCCAVITT

East meets west in the fusion of contemporary experimental water media and ancient Asian brush work influences.  Kate McCavitt truly creates “Between Two Worlds”.  Trained as a Sumi-e artist and self-taught in other genres, she lavishes all of her colorful, textured abstract works with the subtleties of Asian tradition. Random paint events and ancient icons of Zen circles, delicate chrysanthemum, circling human or mythological figures, and representational hand embossed foils create compelling works of subtle mystery and revelation.  Kate’s techniques of using alternating layers of numerous transparent color washes and gloss varnishes render her works with great depth and unparalleled pigment clarity.  Like Maxfield Parrish’s use of oil washes, she uses light reflection over color mixing.   She attributes her love of all things metallic, golden and shiny to Gustav Klimpt and her Zen sensibilities in ink to early Japanese Zen sects of the Rinzai and Soto monks.  A New York native, and former corporate business owner, Kate lives next to a wildlife conservation corridor in Oceanside, California, with grandchildren nearby, a resident hummingbird family, bunnies, egrets, coyotes, bats, crows and hawks.