Katie Parfey is a UK-based floral artist currently working with acrylic paint on canvas.
Katie started making art as soon as she could hold a crayon and has continued throughout her life, drawing and painting to forget about the world, graduating with a 1:1 in Fine Art from University of Chichester in 2009.
She loves to work with acrylics due to their vibrance and quick-drying nature which allow her to become really engrossed in her work for long periods and to paint clean detail with real focus.
Katie makes art as it brings her peace and allows the feeling that she is connecting to the world around her through visual means. Her art is, essentially, about herself and how she is feeling at that particular time. Her use of colour and ability to focus show a buoyant mood, whereas her work can become darker or stop altogether during down times.
Her work allows her to explore the idea of beauty and joy being ephemeral, something that she has been made acutely aware of at times due to mental illness; She depicts a moment of natural beauty to confirm that there is always happiness to be had, always a light in the dark but that this should be appreciated as it can be fleeting.
More recently, Katie’s focus has shifted to the perfectly imperfect; Her work now also considers fading and dying flowers as a metaphor for ageing and beauty, as well as her own experiences with mental illness, and how she has encountered negative attitudes surrounding this. Going forward, her work will encompass both the vibrantly alive and the gradual descent into death.
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