katrina beale painter

Born In Tasmania, Katrina lived out of Australia for ten years, in Berlin and London, returning in the early nineties to study for the Bachelor of Fine Arts at the National Art School in Sydney. She currently shares her time between Europe and Australia.

Since then Katrina has painted consistently and developed a uniquely identifiable style, most often using existential musings as the creative source.

"Expulsion", Katrina's first solo exhibition featured birds, as the focus of a series of narrative paintings inspired in part by "The Death and Burial of Cock Robin", an English traditional song. Alongside these painting, were those with figures of Adam and Eve taken directly from Masaccio's "Expulsion from the Garden of Eden".

"Those subjects allowed me to reflect on the human and animal condition while also lending themselves to more possibilities for invention, toward the point where one action follows another and the painting paints itself. My paintings are informed with an alternating belief and doubt in the redemptive nature of art."