Kate Bell is a painter living and working in Mumbles, Swansea. Much of the inspiration for her colourful abstract and semi abstract landscapes aim to capture the essence and the energy of place. evoking the feelings and atmosphere associated with a particular location rather than reproducing a direct interpretation.
Her work responds to landscape, through experience, myth, and legend. She is fascinated by combining art forms, responding to both music and poetry through line, colour, texture and shape. She works from sketches and paintings both in the environment but also through memory and imagination back in the studio.
She studied Fine Art and English in Canterbury and has an MA in Fine Art from Swansea College of Art, UWTSD, for which she received a Distinction. She has taught in both Secondary and Higher Art Education and has been a Lead Creative Arts Agent for the Arts Council of Wales. and Events Organiser for the Friends of the Glynn Vivian from 2016 -2022. She is also a member of the Welsh Women’s Art Association and the VAA and co-founder of The Mumbles Art Collective.