Green Chicken by Katy Blunt

Original acrylic painting by Katy Blunt. 

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About Katy Blunt - Artist Biography

I have painted all my life and started out doing a Theatre Design degree at St Martins, London. After a masters in Fine Art at the Slade School of Fine Art I worked on various projects including buying a house and doing it up. Whilst at St Martins, I assisted on an
English National Ballet production of Sleeping Beauty directed by Ronald Hynd and designed by Peter Docherty, working late on designs for tutus as one example, cutting through layers of scalloped organza to make a design, I was told in the morning“ it’s not symmetrical” ! I got a review in the Telegraph for my Design for Dance production as “ a mini Tempest “ with dancers from the cream of the ENB dancing in my piece “ with James Supervia directing.
“Kogeki” at St Martins in the Cochrane Theatre. Later, the Princess Royal visited the Slade as chancellor whilst I was there and she was photographed with my tutor, Yolanda Sonnabend and my model box! I have a collection of costume designs in a restaurant called Ballerina right next to the Royal Opera House.

Later, whilst teaching Art GCSE and A Level at a grammar school I , having trained at
Roehampton Institute I was invited to become a member of the London Print Studio by my head of department as a leaving present. It was shortly before John Smith died, the Labour peer, who I met at a meeting there. I have recently come back to my love of printmaking, which I also did at Kingston Polytechnic, where I did my Foundation course. Later, I worked in films such as Saving Private Ryan and was all due to have an exhibition in the Cork Street gallery The Air Gallery, although this was cancelled due to ill health. Soon after this I moved to Buckinghamshire and started painting with the Queens Park.

I met new friends such as John Tydeman and Tony Ashton, Amanda Curbishley, and Jan Ruddock, and Brenda Hurley who encouraged me in my art and I started painting again having shown my latest life-size nude self-portraits , (I was interviewed by the local press) work in the gallery at Queens Park Centre, in Aylesbury. I worked for RTB as a florist we did the Twickenham rugby and Wimbledon I was there for 8 years I also ran a gallery in Burford. My connection to QPC has been steady ever since and I painted with a group there every Tuesday for several years. I now do pottery there every Tuesday morning instead now and paint with Winslow And District Art Society on Thursdays.

We have just had a very exciting exhibition of 125 paintings from our members. One painting of mine on display was a watercolour and ink piece of St Laurence Church, Winslow which the church are buying to give to the retiring church warden, who is moving to Devon, which was a real honour. I showed six paintings in all, including two collages of still life abstracted which I made at a workshop with Jan Munro a very interesting artist who is exhibiting in the Aylesbury museum as I write. Peter Keegan and John Tydeman both came to the show and made encouraging remarks about my work. Peter said he was “pleased I had found a new vessel for my art”. I have had two sell out shows at The Little Bird Told Me Gallery in Wendover over the last couple of years, and have done Bucks Art Weeks at various destinations for over twenty years now, the last ones in St Swithun’s Swanbourne, where I grew up.

I spent 7 years from 2015-22 working for the NHS as a Peer tutor working with adults with mental health problems doing art projects with them. This was something I really enjoyed doing and was very rewarding.

I make cards of my paintings and these have sold quite successfully. I have a soft spot for
chickens, which I am showing five of here as I rescued some ex layers which I painted. They
have always been popular. For a time I did two a week and sold them in Lesley Samms' gallery Okra, in Winslow. For relaxation and a break from art I like to help out at Riding for Disabled ona Wednesday morning at Hall Farm in Mursley, run by Jenny Bonham. I have been going for several years now but not as long as many ! I have lived in Winslow for over twenty years now.