ABOUT THE ARTIST

Kathryn Last is a full time practicing artist, scholar and teacher. Kathryn’s recently completed M.A. degree in Cultural Studies encompassed a Visual Arts Research-Creation focus that engaged with Embodiment and Trauma Theory. Kathryn is an internationally shown and sold abstract painter from Toronto, Canada. Kathryn is currently in her second year of her Visual Arts PhD program

THe Process

Kathryn is an abstract expressionist painter by definition but her work blurs the line between intention and artistic categorization. Her paintings can be defined more so by their improvisatory nature and her philosophical training which allows her to treat colour, matter, and paint as discrete agents within the artistic process. In this sense, her role is not the master of colour but rather a collaborator of colour, texture, form, and materiality.