Katy MacFarlane
Watercolour Painter & Collage Artist
| SITE #5 |
Scugog Arts Space, 175B Queen St., Port Perry | with Dana Mesesan |
I can never get enough of details. People often think that I am extremely patient due to the tiny nature of my work, but I’m definitely not! Details just get me into a zone, and when I come up for air I am often surprised by what has transpired. When I am painting I try to keep pushing myself further and further to get my colours as vibrant as possible, and I know I’m finished when it has almost stopped looking like watercolour.
Katy MacFarlane is an artist living in Brooklin, Ontario. She creates tiny watercolour, ink and collage paintings of interesting places, inside and out. Her paintings explore concepts of home and comfort, while pushing watercolour to its limits of saturation and vibrancy.
Katy’s paintings became tiny after the birth of her first daughter when it became necessary to be able to work for short periods of time and hide her paintings away easily. In the past she has worked on a much larger scale in oils and acrylics and may again one day, but the small size and watercolour medium has allowed her to explore her style in a way she really enjoys. Her paintings may be small but they are also mighty, filled with details that add fun and magic to the subject matter. She likes to think of them as “mini maximalists” and seeks subjects that are packed with quirkiness and intrigue.
Katy loves to drive around the countryside and hike through towns with her daughters, looking for inspiration for her artwork.
