https://www.southernbuoystudios.com.au/sbs-portrait-prize-2020-online-gallery

Kate ‘bitsy’ Stead

(oil on canvas 51cm x 41cm, 2020)

I have known Kate for almost 25years. Our friendship has always circled a love of art. Kate is also painter and we share a working studio in Bangalow, a town in NSW northern rivers region.

At the ‘Itsy bitsy art space”; Kate is bitsy and I am itsy.

In painting Kate; I wanted to capture her as she appears to me, sitting across the studio at her table in her Remo stripy top, big specs and eyes shining back from a face that is full of life and love.

I am so grateful to have Kate in my life and share a friendship steeped in art, conversation and filled with the spirit of collaboration.