Kate Burnim is a visual artist based in Vermont

At The Kent Museum’s Backstory Exhibition — At The Kent Museum’s *Backstory* Exhibition

about kate

Kate was born in Wimbledon, England, in 1976. Most of her childhood years were spent in New England, though her formative years of adolescence found her overseas again in London, England. Each summer of her life has brought her to a rural New England lake.

Kate learned about art from a young age with her grandmother, a painter, printmaker, and sculptor; she later studied at Silvermine Arts Center in New Cannan, CT. As an adult, she studied at California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland, CA, and Academy of Art University in San Francisco, CA.

For the past three years Kate has been deepening her study and practice of Nonviolent Communication and is curious to see how this orientation shows up in her painting practice.

She lives in Montpelier, VT with her two children and wee dog and works out of her home studio.

Statement

I paint to find a still point. To express the spaces in-between and within the fast past busyness of our society. My work is informed by the imperfect, impermanent and incomplete. It is informed by the passage of time, and the echo of what has been, by what is reveal in the weathered surface.