Teddington Artists

See Kitty’s work in the gallery»

email: kitty.wass@blueyonder.co.uk
www.kittywass.co.uk

Kitty trained as a textile designer at Loughborough College of Art and Design and took a PGCE at the Roehampton Institute. She worked as a freelance for eight years before becoming a teacher. She sold designs in America, Germany and Italy.

Her batik paintings are often the result of imaginative leaps after listening to the radio weather forecast or to music. She has had several commissions from musicians who wanted pieces related to music and musical instruments and her work has been seen on television at and Ascot.

Her interest in jewellery started much later. Each piece is a one-off. She works in silver with gold highlights and sometimes sets the pieces with semi-precious stones. She has been influenced by the land and seascapes of Dorset and Cornwall and also Gothic architecture.

Having been featured in the BBC’s ‘What Not to Wear’ she was told unequivocally that she should be wearing bright sparkling jewellery, so, undaunted, she began to make necklaces, earrings and bracelets from semiprecious stones. Through colour and texture they are, she feels, closely related to her batiks.

Kitty undertakes commissions including napkin rings, confirmation crosses and cufflinks with an individual flavour. Her work was for some years for sale at the Gilbert Collection Shop, Somerset House, Strand, where she was invited to talk about her work and influences in 2007. The Gilbert Collection has now moved to the Victoria and Albert Museum.

Kitty has taken part in a series of successful shows, including, this year, Dorset Visual Arts Weeks.

• Two Seascape Artists
• The Gilbert Collection Shop
• Teaching Artists, Kingston University
• Richmond Arthouse Open Studios
• The Landmark Centre, Teddington
• The Avalon Gallery, Cornwall
• Caterpillar Moon, Fulham Palace
• The British Crafts Fair
• Alexandra Palace

email: kitty.wass@blueyonder.co.uk

0208 977 1812