Kate Morrison is a UK-based abstract expressionist whose work speaks quietly but deeply. Anchored in memory, emotion, and a lifelong urge to understand the world through creating. 

With roots in textile design and a self-taught painting practice, Morrison’s process is both intuitive and deliberate, shaped by a need to process, catalogue, and connect.

Drawing from everyday life, overlooked corners of cities, eclectic architectural details and the rhythm of walking through urban and rural landscapes, each painting becomes a sensory archive - a suspended moment where texture, colour, and memory converge. The work holds space for emotion without words.

Influenced by a background in weaving, Morrison considers each canvas as a construction, layering materials with instinct and intention considering the warp and weft construction of her inspiration and process, outside the confines of traditional fine art. 

Morrison's palette is built from gathered collections: weathered surfaces, industrial hues, fragments of place, and the emotional residue of specific moments in time. The result is work that resonates on a guttural level, abstract, yet real.

Raised in industrial Staffordshire and shaped by a nomadic life across the UK, Europe, and Australasia, Morrison brings a raw sensitivity to themes of place, memory, and the human condition. Their work doesn’t shout. It invites. It becomes a quiet companion in interior spaces - contemporary artefacts composed of fragments or traces of stories, places and echoes - offering space for emotional presence and personal reflection.

At its core, the practice is about connection. Between people. Between past and present. Between what we notice, and what we take for granted.