Kate Gritton was born in London, England where she graduated from Sir John Cass School of Art, specializing in painting and printmaking. After several years exhibiting in London, she moved to Northwest France in 2001 where she continues her creative career.

Many of her paintings relate to journeys... to the rugged coasts of Ireland, the hills of Umbria or the inner journeys we make to places and times beyond recall. Strongly influenced by painters such as Turner and O'Donaghue, she follows in the great tradition of landscape painters, always searching for the space beyond reality.

Her work seeks out the hidden undertow of landscape. Beneath the surface of the natural elements lie traces of a past presence, echoes of another experience. Always driven by a sense of place, her paintings record a personal response to locations and events that become both timeless and universal.