Kate Westbrook's Gallery

‘Face the Music and Dance' 2022
ink and body colour on paper (43x48cm framed)

'Dancers on a Spring Morning, diptych' oil on canvas (150 x 200 cm)

Kate Westbrook

'Blues Over Soho Diptych' 2023
oil on canvas (95x130 cm)

'Dog Walker St. Ives Diptych' 2023
oil on canvas (95x130cm)

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THE URBAN BEAT

'Dog Walker St. Ives Diptych' 2023 oil on canvas (95x130cm)

'Giant Raven, Saints and Sinners in Soho’ 2024
oil on canvas (95x130cm)

'Dancers on a Spring Morning, diptych' 2023
oil on canvas (150 x 200 cm)
photo Lucy Williams

work on paper

'In the Park' 2022
ink and body colour on paper (43x48cm framed)

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‘Face the Music and Dance 2022 - ink and body colour on paper (22x28cm)

'Soho, Soho' 2024
watercolour, body colour and pencil (43x48cm framed)

'One Quince, One Teapot' 2024
watercolour, body colour & pencil on paper (43x48cm framed)

'Tea Time' 2024
watercolour & pencil on paper (43x48cm framed)

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'Visitors in the Music Room’ 2022 ink and liquid charcoal on paper (22x28cm)

'Visitors in the Music Room’ 2022
ink and liquid charcoal on paper (43x48cm framed)

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'Soho and the Blues, City Angels' 2023
charcoal on paper (73x91cm framed)

'Soho and the Blues, City Angels' 2023 charcoal on paper (52x71 cm)

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'Spring in the Park' 2021
charcoal on paper (73x91cm framed)

Spring in the Park' 2021 - charcoal on paper (52x71cm)

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Kate Westbrook was born in England and grew up in the USA and Canada before going to Dartington Hall School in Devon. From there she went to Bath Academy of Art at Corsham and then to Reading University. Later she lived and worked on the East and West coasts of America. The first one-man show of her paintings (Kate Barnard Captive) was at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art in California in 1965. She returned to England and took up a part-time teaching post at Leeds College of Art. In 1970 she had her first London show, with two other artists, at the Serpentine Gallery. She has continued to exhibit her work in solo and group shows in the UK, in Europe and Australia. Her work is in public and private collections.

The Urban Beat
Kate joined the Mike Westbrook Band in 1974 and gave up teaching to concentrate on the dual career of painter and musician. She has performed all over Europe and as far afield as the Far East and North America. As a singer/songwriter she is featured on over 30 albums, and she has worked in theatre, radio, and TV. Her latest album Earth Felt the Wound had its London premiere with the Granite Band in the 2021 London Jazz Festival.

Kate is now based in Devon where a solo show of her paintings, Writing the Song, was at the Brownston Gallery in Modbury in 2022. Her forthcoming show at the gallery will be drawn from her series Diana and Actæon.

'Giant Raven, Saints and Sinners in Soho’ 2024 oil on canvas (95x130cm)

The Urban Beat is a collection of recent pieces. Kate drew and painted from the windows of the Bristol recording studio where she and husband Mike have worked in recent years. The building site opposite was a source of fascination. From the initial sketches she developed the diptych Dancers on a Spring Morning. When playing Ronnie Scott’s Club, she made sketches of the roofscape from the hotel room where she stayed. These sketches were the genesis of Giant Raven, Saints and Sinners in Soho and Blues Over Soho.

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