Katie Meyer

Katie Meyer is an emerging Australian visual artist with a deep appreciation for beauty in nature, her work shaped by quiet attention to her surroundings.

Katie’s current focus on landscape painting explores the benefits of spending time in natural spaces on our wellbeing through a sensory processing lens, influenced by her practice as an occupational therapist, as well as her late-recognised neurodivergent identity.

She prioritises expressive and intuitive brush marks, connecting with her environment during the creative process to communicate the sensory experience of natural spaces, and extends these into the indoor spaces of her collectors. In this way, her work considers visual art as purposeful to wellbeing, inviting the viewer’s experience of her work to be a grounding one.

As I am formally a healthcare worker, being an artist in residence at the Fish Factory allowed me more time to paint than I had ever fathomed. In a place of endless inspiration, I painted both plein air and from photographs in oils and gouache, and refined the creative process with which I approach my work. I am incredibly grateful for everything I now carry with me from this adventure (mostly small rocks).