Kate Giles

Kate Giles is a contemporary painter renowned for her powerful and expressive interpretations of the East Anglian landscape. Born in Norwich, her work reflects a lifelong engagement with the region’s distinctive light, atmosphere, and sense of place. Rooted in both observation and memory, her paintings offer an intimate and deeply felt response to the natural world.

Giles read English at Oxford before training at Camberwell and Falmouth Schools of Art, establishing a strong intellectual and painterly foundation for her practice. She has exhibited regularly since, with a particular presence in London and East Anglia, as well as internationally. Her work is held in numerous public and private collections in the UK and abroad, including the Britten Pears Foundation and Banco Sabadell. A number of residencies and commissions — notably with the National Theatre, Whitechapel Bell Foundry, and Kazan Cathedral in St Petersburg — have further informed and expanded her practice.