Katherine Edwards McCubbin – Roman Holiday Fountain Party
Katherine Edwards McCubbin – Bow Tie Baroque Tryst
Katherine Edwards McCubbin – Painting Study for Floral Baroque no. 6
Katherine Edwards McCubbin – Float-Scape
Katherine Edwards McCubbin – Study for Floral Baroque no. 7
Katherine Edwards McCubbin – Interior Garden with Fornasetti Candle
Katherine Edwards McCubbin – Portrait with Fornasetti Candle
Katherine Edwards McCubbin – Floral Baroque Fountain
Katherine Edwards McCubbin – Study for Floral Baroque no. 5
Katherine Edwards McCubbin – Snail-Scape
Katherine Edwards McCubbin – Bernini’s Fountain Heads
Katherine Edwards McCubbin – Study for Floral Baroque no. 2
Katherine Edwards McCubbin – Study for Floral Baroque no. 4
Katherine Edwards McCubbin – Small Painting Study for Baroque Floral
Katherine Edwards McCubbin – Street Kaleidoscope
Katherine Edwards McCubbin – Study for Floral Baroque No. 3
Katherine Edwards McCubbin – Mirrored Reflection
A face, ethereal and evocative, emerges from an atmospheric swirl of brushstrokes. A flower blooms as a constellation in the foreground, and the sense of peering into both a microscope, and upon the entire surface of the planet, merges into a playful symphony of spots, dots, & daubs. Welcome to the world of Katherine Edwards McCubbin. A mid-career artist making her emphatic statement, in her own very personal visual language.
Katherine’s pictures combine, gestural marks of reduced colour, into mythic apparitions, a product of a lifetime of dreaming and exploring the world of interiors, and the broader world of exteriors. Within that exchange of spaces, she has found the ethereal, the ambiguities, and the suggestion of so much more.
Exploring and day-dreaming in Katherine’s early years, the shape, light, and tropical urban wilderness of Sydney’s North Shore on her doorstep – developed her artistic appetite. Winding pathways beside the water, lined with tropical floral explosions fashioned her impression of the sublime – from the microscopic to the grandiose, none of this being accidental. An 8 week artist residency in Rome in 2017 broadened her understanding of ruins, fragments and the eternal.