"Wren Couple with Purple Flower" by Katie Sandison

Katie Sanderson
@katiesandisonfineart
www.katiesandison.com

Custom gold leaf on canvas. 20m x 29m

About the Artist

Passionate about raising awareness of Australia’s unique botanics and bird life species, South Australian watercolour painter Katie Sandison loves to create artworks which connect to the land through vibrant splashes and Impressionist strokes and illuminating metallic compositions. Her unique Australian fauna and fauna painting series was established in 2017 with the vision to capture purposeful documentation, highlight the importance of vulnerable, common, and extinct species through complimentary colour pallets. Her curated exhibitions has raised funds since 2020 for charitie and she continues to contribute to wildlife and environmental organisations.

An ECO BIO CUP artist from 2021-24, her ‘Blue wren couple with purple orchids’ was featured in the coffee cup artist series, throughout Australia, New Zealand, and Singapore.

Katie started her art journey at the age of 1 & 1/2 when she drew all over the walls of her first home in the Adelaide Hills and her parents were still painting over the Texta marks as they were selling the Stirling home.

She attended Ruth Tuck Art School from the age of 7yrs and often spent time with the renowned water-colourist being a family friend. Ruth Tuck's Impressionist and modernist watercolour style of painting has had an enormous influence on Katie as an artist and art teacher. Her work reflects aspects of the romanticism of the English Pre-Raphaelites, the decorative gold from the Byzantine Art movement and stokes from French Impressionists, but with a definite Australian flavour. 

Art Schools: 
North Adelaide School of Art receiving a Diploma of Applied Art, 1994
University of South Australia Underdale receiving a Visual Art Degree 1997
University of Bachelor of Education in 1999 
Short courses at The Central School of Art 

In 2021 after a diverse career teaching art in schools throughout Adelaide for 22 years she embarked on a new direction and established 'Katie Sandison Fine Art. Painting each day from her Mitcham Studio she runs three kids art classes during the school term 'Kids Art Adelaide'.

Represented by:
Aspire Gallery since 2024 Stockroom Artist Affordable Art Fairs Australia.
Manyung Gallery Artist 2024-25  V.I.C.
Aspire Gallery 2024-25 Unveiled Prize Finalist 2024 Q.L.D, Brisbane Affordable Art Fair.
ArtworX Gallery and Gifts Goolwa, S.A.

Prizes:
Unveiled Prize Finalist 2024 Q.L.D.
Petite Pieces Art Prize Finalist Mia Oakley :Judge Ken Done 2024-25 N.S.W.
Heysen Landscape Prize Finalist 2019, S.A.
All Connections to Unley Prize Finalist 2019 ,S.A.