“Farewell Love Song” 2014, oil on canvas, 30 x 24 in.

Kate Friis grew up in Stratford and studied Fine Arts at York University in Toronto.  Her paintings hover between representation and abstraction.  Whether she is painting a still life or the woods around her former home in Caledon, her work is about the joy of painting, the exploration of surface texture, the interplay of colour and movement.