Katie Green (she/they) is a visual artist creating intimate acrylic ink personas that are eerie and ethereal. These emotionally visceral reflections provide Katie with a healing process that manifests as visual characters and scenes that explore internal emotional landscapes. For Katie, the process of painting is one of searching as they wait for something or someone to emerge. Inside this in-between presence is where surprises come forward and characters from unseen places take shape in visual ways. Being in relationship with the beings that appear becomes a form of therapeutic release, helping to both guide and nurture something within. Using these paintings as the inspirational foundation for their practice, Katie creates murals that abstract feelings and forms into immersive scenes where fantastical beings morph and melt together within imagined worlds. Increasingly, their mural projects involve communities in a process of mask making that results in large-scale public expressions of hidden identities, emotional realities and internal experiences.
Katie’s work is whimsical, ethereal, playful and vibrant. Her practice is inspired by the interplay between humans, animals, folklore, myths, and the power of narrative based artwork. She is interested in how images can create worlds that tell stories in which the viewer is invited to free their minds to fantasize without limitations.