Katherine Jenkins’ prints and paintings convey a fascination with isolated and disintegrating landscapes. Through her utilization of ink and watercolors, she executes pieces exhibiting both randomness and control, alluding to the unique balance of growth and decay occurring in nature. Aiming to not only portray a site, but also her experience within it, the artist visits a place before she paints. After a series of visits, she begins to work inside her studio. While recollecting certain elements from her encounter, Jenkins simultaneously fictionalizes the space she is reconstructing. Having seen each site under a variety of conditions, the artist communicates her diverse experience of place through the layering of color and softening of delineations, so that viewers are offered composite images of sites unknown to them. Ultimately, Jenkins’s landscapes deny location, with the distinction between her memory of place and its reality consistently and adeptly obscured.
Katherine Jenkins is currently pursuing her Masters in Landscape Architecture at the University of Virginia while continuing her explorations in painting.