All Eyes On: Katherine Gallacher

Katherine is a Scottish artist with a passion for cyanotype, the creative process where Art meets Science.  Alongside creating her artwork she works as an art and design teacher in Denny, Falkirk.  She loves the unpredictable nature of this process and experiments with traditional formulation by using elements such as vinegar and salt, adding them to the process to change the colour and the texture of each piece. By collecting flora from her own garden and the Scottish countryside she aims to highlight the individuality of each variety and bring wild unforgotten plants and weeds to the fore.   

Katherine uses many surfaces as her canvas from watercolour paper, natural fabrics, sheet music, maps and also black and white photographic paper to create cyanolumens.  She has recently experimented with x ray films, MRI scans and has also used her own ink drawings to create negatives to print with.  Once the initial cyanotype process is complete Katherine loves to use metallic paints to further enhance her work and wishes to explore collage and mixed media further in 2023.