Kate Adams
Kate Adams is a scratchboard fine artist and illustrator based in the U.S. Her work is a tribute to the past as well as a portal to another world of her own imagination. When not creating personal work inspired by history and myth, she also creates scratchboard illustrations for books, games, and packaging.
Kate has worked exclusively in scratchboard ever since discovering it during her undergraduate years at the Rhode Island School of Design. This method of direct engraving with a knife was invented in the 19th century and was popularized as printing techniques developed. It is a traditional technique that allows for subtle shifts of value, a brilliant quality of light, and precise detail.
Kate’s work has appeared in Spectrum: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art, as well as magazines such as Creative Quarterly: The Journal of Art and Design, with her “Lockwood & Co.” illustrations also being featured in CQ’s 100 Best Annual book in 2014. Her piece “Nocturne VI” was selected as a Traditional Art Finalist in the 2023 Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize and was also awarded the dual-category prize in the 2023 Art Renewal Center’s Annual International Salon.
Kate has worked exclusively in scratchboard ever since discovering it during her undergraduate years at the Rhode Island School of Design. This method of direct engraving with a knife was invented in the 19th century and was popularized as printing techniques developed. It is a traditional technique that allows for subtle shifts of value, a brilliant quality of light, and precise detail.
Kate’s work has appeared in Spectrum: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art, as well as magazines such as Creative Quarterly: The Journal of Art and Design, with her “Lockwood & Co.” illustrations also being featured in CQ’s 100 Best Annual book in 2014. Her piece “Nocturne VI” was selected as a Traditional Art Finalist in the 2023 Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize and was also awarded the dual-category prize in the 2023 Art Renewal Center’s Annual International Salon.
