Kate Adams
Kate Adams
b. 1989 Weymouth, Massachusetts
BFA, The Rhode Island School of Design, 2012.
Kate grew up in Massachusetts and now works in the Philadelphia area. She graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2012 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Illustration and a Concentration in English Literature. In 2011, she worked and studied in Rome, Italy as part of the European Honors Program.
Growing up in historical wooded New England, Kate has always had a love for nature and a curiosity for the past. As she traveled and learned about other countries and cultures, she was also fascinated by tales from myth and folklore which seemed to imbue the everyday world with supernatural mystery. Today, Kate’s work invites the viewer into a world of heroines and goddesses that feels as real as it does magical.
For the past fourteen years, Kate has worked exclusively in scratchboard, which is a board coated with black ink that is scratched away in a reductive process to reveal the white layer underneath. Kate uses only an x-acto knife as well as watered-down ink which is brushed and stippled to darken areas of her work, the scratchboard version of an eraser.
Her technique draws inspiration from classical painting as well as drawing, having developed a method of layering delicate marks for a soft and luminous effect in the spirit of chiaroscuro and sfumato. Her recent work contrasts the cool gray and black of scratchboard with the shining warmth of gold leaf.
b. 1989 Weymouth, Massachusetts
BFA, The Rhode Island School of Design, 2012.
Kate grew up in Massachusetts and now works in the Philadelphia area. She graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2012 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Illustration and a Concentration in English Literature. In 2011, she worked and studied in Rome, Italy as part of the European Honors Program.
Growing up in historical wooded New England, Kate has always had a love for nature and a curiosity for the past. As she traveled and learned about other countries and cultures, she was also fascinated by tales from myth and folklore which seemed to imbue the everyday world with supernatural mystery. Today, Kate’s work invites the viewer into a world of heroines and goddesses that feels as real as it does magical.
For the past fourteen years, Kate has worked exclusively in scratchboard, which is a board coated with black ink that is scratched away in a reductive process to reveal the white layer underneath. Kate uses only an x-acto knife as well as watered-down ink which is brushed and stippled to darken areas of her work, the scratchboard version of an eraser.
Her technique draws inspiration from classical painting as well as drawing, having developed a method of layering delicate marks for a soft and luminous effect in the spirit of chiaroscuro and sfumato. Her recent work contrasts the cool gray and black of scratchboard with the shining warmth of gold leaf.
