Nest Home Design Art: Kate Phillips in the Guerilla Gallery at Nest Home Design

Scroll down to see Kate Phillips paintings and information about the work that is currently on display in the Guerilla Gallery at Nest Home Design. Click on each image to enlarge.

We are very proud to show the work of Kate Phillips. Please come see them in person when we are open between 12pm and 4pm on Thursdays. Or call me, Obi Kaufmann, Art Director, 510-914-8364 for an appointment.

Click here to view her small paintings.

Kate Phillips is a Scottish artist who currently lives in The Bay Area. She studied printmaking at Glasgow School of Art and for the past seven years has worked in the encaustic medium. Her drawings and paintings are made using this ancient technique which is a layering of bees wax/resin and pigments fused together with a blowtorch. Kate traps found images, old paper and thread between these layers to create intriguing worlds, beckoning the viewer closer, to hear the stories they whisper. They smell nice too.

in her words:

When I paint, I travel to a little world where the light is like that of a late sunny afternoon just as summer is becoming autumn and the glaring sunshine becomes a warmer sleepy glow. It is an in between place where things are not quite as they seem. In this world I visit old houses and gardens collecting old paper and memories. The fragmented images and feelings from these journeys float up to the surface which I capture between layers of beeswax, trapping a fleeting moment, in a slightly haunted suspension. These collections of marks and images become souvenirs of journeys back there.