Collection: Katie Sandison

Katie is passionate fine artist and teacher who captures past and present native endangered, extinct and common Australian flora and fauna species, though vibrant water colour/acrylic paintings depicted on wooden surfaces. She creates a crucial connection between the ordinary birds like the familiar iconic magpie and more rare extraordinary species hardly seen any more, in a unique and distinctive style of painting. This purposeful documentation of whimsical scale distortions highlights the importance of individual species exposing an illusionary world stemming from exotic colour schemes and the metallic reflections.

Katie studied Visual Arts at North Adelaide School of Art at the age of 16 and continued on to receive a Bachelor of Visual Art and A Bachelor of Education Post graduate in Secondary Visual Art and Design in 1999.

She has exhibited extensively throughout South Australia and has participated in Visual Art festivals over the past 30 years.

In 2019 Katie was a finalist in the 'Landscape art Prize' Hahndorf Academy, Hahndorf, SA and also the “All connections to Unley Art Prize' at the Hughes Gallery, Unley Council, S.A