About the artist

Hello and welcome!

Please click on the blue bits to read more about my art projects:

  • Burnham Art Trail: I stuck with a nature theme for Burnham Art Trail 2025 – the third time I’ve taken part. I made small mixed media paintings inspired by the flowers that were blooming in some of the artists’ studio gardens during Art Trail week 2024. I was delighted to show my work in the garden shed at Venue 3 again (4 Fernlea Road, Burnham-on-Crouch) and to hang out with the other artists in the beautiful garden there: painting, chatting and welcoming visitors almost every day of the Trail was such a treat. Check out the info for all the venues and artists on the Burnham Art Trail website. 

Burnham Art Trail 2025, giant scabious, flower, petals, nature, permanent marker, watercolour, coloured pencil, gold ink, collage, felt pen

 

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burnham-on-crouch, essex, wallasea, clocktower, marine, landscape, boats, estuary, architecture, illustration,

sign, sign painting, sign writing, hand painted, illustration, fruit, vegetables, one shot enamel, shop local, burnham on crouch, essex, fresh, sun burst, asparagus, cherries, peas, strawberries, lime, mushroom, pears, advertising, promotion

  • During the first lockdown of 2020 I was absorbed with my “Painted Snapshots of Bermondsey” project. I sent my original artist book to the Brooklyn Art Library and then self published a limited edition of 50 printed copies – all signed and numbered – which I sold to raise money for Southwark Foodbank.

street sign, illustration, brooklyn art library, the sketchbook project, sketchbook, pen and wash, watercolour, watercolor, painting, drawing, urban landscape, urban sketching, corona virus lockdown 2020, bermondsey, london, se1, southwark

pen, watercolour, water color, drawing, painting, illustration, food, map, andalucia, andalusia, annie b, spanish kitchen, vejer, cadiz, jerez, sherry, cerdo iberico, queso de cabra, goats cheese, iberian pork, retinto, beef, tuna, atun, octopus, pulpo, flamenco, squid, calamari, lemon, limon, anchovies, anchoas, prawns, gambas, atlantic ocean, oceano atlantico, mediterranean sea, mar mediterraneo, solera, spices, vineyard, bodega, chorizo, olive oil, acete de oliva

  • Sketching: Weather permitting, I like to sit outside and crack open my old tin of watercolour paints for some loose drawing and splattery colouring. 

burnham art trail, grapnells farm, wallasea island, burnham-on-crouch, burnham art trail, burnham art club, river crouch, essex, wallasea island, boats, landscape, pen and wash, watercolour, painting, urban sketching, nautical scene, illustration

  • Textile design: I’ve had my designs digitally printed onto fabric for various sewing projects including: dresses, a tea cosy and face masks.

dragonfly, fabric, textile design, home sewing, sustainable fashion, slow fashion, woven monkey, the assembly line elastic tie sweater, dress making

  • Travel Blogging – I recorded my trip around India in words, photos and sketches and posted them in my latest work section. I also drew portraits and painted a few murals while I was in Rajasthan.

jaisalmar, fort, rajasthan, india, workaway, rooftop, wonbin safari hostel, pen and wash, watercolour, watercolor, painting, sketching, sketchbook, travel illustration, travel blog, illustration, landscape, painting, drawing

wedding, card, portrait, couple, gay, marriage, greetings card, congratulations, rainbow, joint portrait, couple, happy couple, wedding day, celebration, nuptuals, digital, illustration, pencil, drawing, outline, photoshop, layers, highlights, sunglasses

The writer Jackie Cornwall says

icarus mendoza, sequence, three witches, book cover, novel, illustration, jackie cornwall

“I came to Kathryn Hockey’s art through a St. Ives prism, seeing in her clear colours and careful outlines the legacy of Ben Nicholson, Christopher Wood and Bryan Pearce. How wonderful then, that when I asked her to create a painting for a friend’s birthday, she gave me that most quintessential St. Ives discovery, a windowless windowsill! Her work vibrates with a life-affirming joie de vivre. Her ability to find colour and interest in unregarded objects is one of the most engaging aspects of her art.

Everything in Kathryn’s work has its own glamour, from bulging gas bottles to clustered flowers. A white skull, an elegantly strutting rooster, a squadron of peppers are almost tamed by her instinct for line and pattern, but in their exuberant colours nature has its way. A dancer’s boots, crowned with roses and creased with use, lead our eyes into a looking-glass world. Beyond her delicately wrought townscapes dance the lights of infinite possibility.

Sometimes cartoonish and stylised, sometimes lovingly detailed, her people are not strangers; they look straight into our hearts, and whether they smile, wink knowingly or merely look out at us from the sanctuary of their own thoughts, we know them and their humanity. To encounter one of her subjects is to find a friend. Her animals too, are real personalities.

Kathryn’s work would enliven any context, but in the brilliant light of the Costa de la Luz her feel for both colour and line have come together in a unique combination. She is a true artist, one who makes art out of everything she sees, and I trust that in the future, her reputation will increase as she deserves.”

You can see posts about my latest creations here.