Katherine Boucher Beug, People
16 November – 22December 2024

Katherine, originally from Princeton, New Jersey, has worked and taught in West Cork since 1971. Known for her draughtsmanship, she draws every day, consistently experimenting with writing, collage and painting. She showed her 'internal' journals as part of her exhibition, alongside paintings, valuing ‘the raw’ at least as much as ‘the cooked’.

Katherine's work is held in the collections of the National Gallery, the Crawford, the Arts Council, the Glucksman, in many private collections in Ireland, UK, Germany and America.Gemma Tipton, who introduced the show, says in her introduction to Katherine's Flowers: the Book (2021): ‘Looking at the flower paintings and drawings is very much like a conversation with the artist herself. You find unexpected ideas, sudden powerful thoughts, a confluence of delicacy and strength. You come away seeing the world in a way that is exciting and new. A window has been opened, and you wonder why you never saw that view before.’

A video of the opening remarks can be viewed here: https://youtu.be/ynXr5M9skNQ

The exhibition provided a platform for the launch of Katherine’s latest book People which offers a close look at the creative process through the lens of her images of faces and people. Informed by her experience of teaching since the early ’70s, the book contains over sixty pages of sketchbook drawings, a full-colour section on paintings, an interview with Gemma Tipton, and text from the artist describing her working process. Both books, Flowers and People, offer an in-depth, insight into Katherine's world and are available at the gallery.