Kate Bishop looks for light, beauty and an element of mystery in the forms and shapes found in nature as well as in everyday objects.  She uses components of her own sketches and photos to begin her compositions of remembered and imagined landscapes, and builds her paintings with layers of expressive colour in oils or acrylic.

Kate Bishop studied drawing, painting and theatre design at NYU, the Art Students League of New York, and Cooper Union (with Lisa Yuskavage) after leaving a career in finance. She exhibited her watercolour paintings and sculpture installations at Toronto’s Third Rail Festival, White (Area Gallery, 401 Richmond) and heterodoxy Alice 75 (Trenton Avant-Garde, NJ). She attended Toronto School of Art and resumed a studio practice after raising a family and working in costume design and arts administration. Her work has been shown at Unframed (Propeller Gallery), West Toronto Art Tour, Seasons of Colour (Etobicoke Civic Centre Gallery), Inner/Outer Landscapes (Salon Six at Toronto School of Art Gallery) and North by West (Northern Contemporary Gallery).