In this episode I visit Katherine Throne at her Wanaka home, studio… and garden.

Katherine has only seriously committed to a painting practice in her 40's. Despite that, her work has been in high demand since self represented sell out shows at the Allpress Gallery space in Freemans Bay Auckland in 2018 and 2019. Katherine holds a MFA from from Elam School of Fine Arts at the University of Auckland, and a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting with Honors from the Kendall Collage of Art and Design in Michigan, in the United States.

She is represented by Sanderson Gallery in Auckland.

In this episode you’ll hear Katherine talk about accidentally finding her way to painting through interior design, a want to resurrect the flower in paintings after it’s demise at the hands of modernism and industrialisation, our attraction to beauty and  ...