Becky Moran enters the world of acclaimed Devon artist Katharine Lightfoot Hostile, remote and unforgiving, the bleak Dartmoor landscape and its hardy inhabitants have been inspiring Katharine Lightfoot’s dramatic oil canvases for 10 years. Sheep, with their stubborn ability to survive the elements, their inquisitive natures and mad, uneasy stares, are the frequent subjects of her large paintings, alongside cattle, horses, ponies and dogs. Read More

Jack Paynter talks to Katharine Lightfoot. Katharine Lightfoot, ‘Kat’ to her friends, is the youngest of a veritable dynasty of artists: niece to painter John Lightfoot (now also based in Devon), younger sister to landscape painter James and daughter to Anna (who recently again took up the paint brush) - even her grandmother ‘dabbled in painting’. Read More

Like so many artists, Katharine Lightfoot was forced to subsidise her fine art income by working as a painter and decorator for a while, after graduating in Fine Art from Exeter College of Art and Design. This has followed a brave move to hold an exhibition in Cork Street, London, in November 2002, which although a difficult decision at the time, has now proved to be the springboard they needed to launch their individual careers and both James and Katherine are now able to concentrate on painting full time, with enough commissions and ongoing exhibitions to keep them both afloat. Read More