Kate Giles discusses her 'Willowleap' series, as part of 'Remember Tomorrow' at Gainsborough's House

Join Kate Giles inside ‘Remember Tomorrow’ as she describes her ‘Willowleap’ series, on canvases reaching back to her days in Butley Mills Studios. Kate describes the process of painting the pair in a flow-state, something she describes as an “absolute fury”. Much like the act of painting them, and works in the same space, Kate feels the works are informed by “propulsive energy”. Suffolk-born and Norfolk residing artist Kate Giles (b. 1962) creates expressive work rooted in her native landscape, specifically drawing on the legacy of John Constable. This exhibition primarily showcases new paintings and drawings, several of which explicitly refer to Constable’s six-footer of the Suffolk landscape, The Leaping Horse, which will be on display as part of the main exhibition during this season. Constable described The Leaping Horse as, ‘lively – & soothing – calm and exhilarating, fresh – & blowing’, and it is this dual energy, that Giles has responded to fervently.