Katy Jade Dobson

Katy Jade Dobson is a UK based oil painter, originally from Yorkshire but currently resides in the town of Lincoln.

Katy spent her childhood feeding her love for art with a self-taught approach to drawing and painting, focusing largely on ethereal portraits or detailed sketches, only then pursued this throughout her educated life to the University of Lincoln. After working in bars for 2 years, Katy began painting in a number of mediums from acrylic to watercolours in mixed media canvas pieces on the side, often attending art events and fairs with her work. The positive reaction to Katy’s’ wildlife work led to a large shift towards oil paints as the medium of choice. After finding the rich tones and infinite possibilities with texture, oils became the fast medium of choice and thereafter became a huge part of Katy’s’development and work as an artist.

Inspired by the ethereal qualities of Odilon Redon and further by his use of vivid colour, Katy descended into opulent oil paintings of wildlife scenes and subjects of nature and animals. In a spontaneous move to portraiture, Katy worked on a series of iconic women, all eclectic in their abstract colour qualities and heavily embellished, adorned with tactile marks and brush strokes. This collection features in Cliché’ magazine and on the cover of The Journal magazine. Further admiration for elegance and richness of palette brought Katy to combine these loves to create original oil paintings with a plethora of colour, and a blend of drama, harmony, presence and dissolve.

Katy explores the natural world in her elegant oil paintings imbued with vivid bursts of colour. Taking animals, wildlife scenes and female figures as her subjects, Katy brings canvases to life with a rainbow palette, intricate detailing and spontaneous and kinetic overtones.

Katy’s artistic journey accelerated in 2011, when she bought her first canvas to work on. She created a large-scale mixed media painting of two birds in flight and ultimately sold the piece, the first time she’d managed to do so.

After working as a barmaid for two years, Katy began painting in a range of mediums and attended art events and fairs to showcase her work. Her wildlife paintings were received extremely positively, which led to Katy opting to paint primarily with oils thereafter. In 2013, having found her feet and individual style, Katy began working as a professional artist.

Katy is a passionate animal welfare supporter, which is a clear influence in her work. Enticed by their strength, elegance and regal qualities, stags were originally Katy’s subject of choice, but many other animals have since found their way onto her canvases. She regularly paints birds and has perfected the intricate skill of capturing the movement of wings mid-flight, while other species including elephants, tigers, gorillas and stag’s have become more recent focal points.