Bluebell Forest

Kate Florence’s large-scale figurative paintings unfold like vignettes from a surreal Western dream. Her subjects—musicians, horses, cowboy-like figures—move through invented narratives rendered in rich earth tones and sweeping, gestural lines. These scenes hum with motion and intimacy, each stroke echoing the immediacy of the hand. Drawing from a personal mythology as much as from the collective imaginary of the American West, Florence constructs spaces where story and symbol collide. Her compositions, both raw and precise, carry the quiet charge of something familiar made strange—an interior frontier where emotion and myth meet in equal measure.