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SELECTED WORK

A painting composed of mixed media on canvas by artist Katie Riddell. The painting depicts layers of acrylic paint, oil pastels, marker pens, sand, and paper. The composition shows a colourful seaside, sunset, a joyful line drawing of a crab, and the words SEA OF DREAMS scratched into the blue of the sea repeatedly.

SEA OF DREAMS - mixed media on canvas, 2025

collage papers, acrylic paint, and a glue resist make up a vague silhouette of a person among blues, reds, and purples. a panda face and some text can be made out in the paper. painterly lines and scribbles make up the image

MAKE FIT - mixed media on paper

a collage made up of found packages, including book paper, carboard, a tea box, and a used tea bag. abstract in dull browns and green

collage

a vibrant red and yeloow/green on a linseed oil soaked paper, giving a yellow-brown tinge. instinctual marks make up the abstract piece, swiping and pouring on the page. almost flower-like.

POUR - oil on paper

a triptych of matching japanese woodcut prints. blocky, square images with bleeding lines and muted tones, one in pinks, one in blue and purple, and one in greens. the pieces look like messy building blocks or a birds-eye view of a city

japanese woodcut print on paper

a heavily layer canvas with layers and layers of muddied colours - reds, blues, yellows smudge together into a murk. the drawn lines on top connect the edges of the canvas with a swirling mass outlined in red in the lower half of the image. the words, half coloured in and half obscured by the swirling orb read "here comes a feeling you thought you'd forgotten"

A FEELING YOU THOUGHT YOU'D FORGOTTEN - oil bar on canvas, 2024

THE SKY WOULD BE WHITE - pumice, glitter, acrylic, and oil bar on canvas, 2026

the inside of a stretched canvas had been painted on, creating a frame around and image. the canvas is loosely split into four using string in a cross shape. creating quarters of a window scene. the scene if bright and blue with suggestions of plants and sun. the frame around the image is in white with the words "come outside and see" repeatedly drawn around the whole frame. the centre of the painting reads "theres grass and trees and leaves and water and i think you'll like it". there is a mousey creature peering outwards in the bootm corner, with it's back to us. the painting looks cobbled and scratchy and painterly and bright.

COME OUTSIDE AND SEE - mixed media on reverse of stretched canvas, 2026

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