Katie Middleton

Artist	Katie Middleton	Resides	United States
Website	katiemiddletonart.com	Medium	Oil
Follow the Artist	Instagram	Email	[email protected]
Press	katiemiddletonart.com/press	Themes	Figurative Portraiture Nature Surrealism Patterns & Textiles

About the artist

Katie Middleton was born in Richmond, Virginia, and currently lives in Los Angeles, California. She earned her BFA in painting from Pratt Institute in 2007 in Brooklyn, New York, where she was also honored with the Early Career Achievement Award in 2016.

She also studied painting, printmaking, and art history at L’Universita Internazionale Dell’arte (U.I.A.) in Venice, Italy. Beyond her painting, Katie works as a union make-up and special effects artist in television and film. In 2017, she received a nomination for a Hollywood Makeup Artist and Hair Stylist Guild Award for her work on the film “Loving”.

Katie is also the author of the book “Color Theory for the Make-up Artist: Understanding Color and Light for Beauty and Special Effects”, which was first published by Routledge in 2018 and a second edition was released in 2022.

Artwork Themes & Subject Matter

In Katie Middleton’s “Tessera” figurative series, she like to explore the relationships between organic forms of nature and geometric shapes found in objects such as tiles and architecture, finding harmony in their contrast. Her paintings often center around portraiture, using opposing colors and intricate patterns to capture the subject while shaping their mood and personalities.

Katie creates a busy and chaotic collage-like designs on a computer and then translate these compositions into physical pigments and brush strokes by challenging myself to combine disjointed components into a cohesive world. She paints on wood for smooth textures and crisp lines, and she enjoy painting with highlights of rich and saturated colors.