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Visual Artist / Art Therapist
Katrina Beissel is emerging artist living and working in Sydney and the Blue Mountains. She predominantly uses water mixable oil paint for its comparative kindness to human health and the environment. Katrina has extended the early training she received from prize-winning art teachers, to develop her own style of tonalism. Katrina’s art has been influenced by her training as an art therapist and her study of practical philosophy.
Katrina’s work is held in private collections locally and internationally.
Exhibitions
Solo show:
Ambiguity, Art Gallery on Darling July 2025
Around the bend, Art Gallery on Darling 2024
Trio show:
Meandering, Tiliqua Tiliqua 2024
Group Shows:
Wilmas group, Sugar House 2024
Ocean fundraiser, Sugar House 2024
Radiant Landscapes, Balmain Watch House 2024
Homegrown, Willoughby Council exhibition, Chatswood Concourse 2024
Natura Explican, Corner Gallery 2024
Blue Mountains Artfest 2023
Women in Art , The Imaginer Gallery 2023
Incognito 2024, 2023, 2022
John Colet School 2025, 2024, 2023
The Twelve, 11:11 Gallery 2022
Prize Finalist:
Fisher’s Ghost Art Prize 2024
Lane Cove Art Prize 2024
9x5 Landscape Prize 2024, 2023, 2022
Biblio Art Prize 2023, 2022
Foot Square Art prize 2023
Art Education:
Multiple short courses
-Ku-ring-gai Art Centre
-Willoughby Art Centre
-Royal Art Society
Master Art Therapy 2014-2015 Western Sydney University
Artist statement
In my meanderings around the earth I travel a slow path, following intuition, and seeking to learn from the wisdom of the land. On these travels I make sketches or photographs as prompts for what has inspired. Reworking these memories later in the studio I aim to convey a felt sense of that restorative moment in time.
I relate to the metaphor of light as a guide, a giver of insight and delight. Capturing the magic of light, through subtle changes in tone and a balance of softness and structure, is an important focus in my work. I am particularly drawn to atmospheric weather conditions, which are often reminiscent of the human condition. I enjoy exploring the parallel between human emotions and dilemmas and the natural environment. In this exploration I am interested in how the environment intersects with our emotional and spiritual well-being.
I acknowledge that I live and paint on Cammeraygal and Ngurra Country and I honour the strength and intergenerational resilience of the traditional owners, elders, past, present and emerging who are custodians of this land, sea, sky and waterways.
