About
‘As long as I can remember I have fully lived self expression, dance, movement and abstract painting.’
Kati A Treble is an abstract painter whose work explores the expressive power of colour, mark-making with spirituality through large scale abstract colour fields and texture. The process is both intuitive and physical—layering thick oil paint, then scraping it back, revealing hidden textures, and allowing buried stories to surface. This cyclical method of construction and deconstruction of time, sometimes taking years to complete, becomes a metaphor in itself: a visual language for expressing somatically what cannot be put into words.
Kati’s paintings are driven by instinct, with each mark responding to and reshaping the one before it. Dynamic colour relationships and energetic application form a kind of visual rhythm, evoking emotional intensity and resonance within colour we know on a tribal level. Through this immersive process she invites the viewer into an evolving dialogue—between memory and presence, chaos and structure, the seen and the felt.
Central to her practice is the element of time. Each work unfolds through a sustained engagement with the surface, where colour, composition, and form develop organically. By stripping imagery back to its essential elements, she explores the power of pure abstraction to convey modern narratives and deep emotional truths.
ABSTRACT EXPRESSION .
ABSTRACT EXPRESSION .
Kati was born in Hong Kong to an English father and Australian mother. Her early childhood in Hong Kong Island’s Deep Water Bay instilled a deep connection to nature, the landscape, and elemental forces—an influence that continues to shape her artistic vision. Her formative years were spent between the UK and Australia, enriching her cultural perspective mark making play and creative voice, dance was very important from an early age.
She earned her degree from Ravensbourne College of Design and Communication, alongside grade 8 ballet and dance, later pursuing further studies at the University of the Arts London, LCF and CSM.
At 19, she moved to New York City, where she worked at legendary designer Diane von Furstenberg, known for her heavy use of print and colour in fashion, Vivienne Westwood and later in her career as Head of Design & Production at luxury atelier Maria Grachvogel.
This background in dance, design, textiles and colour continues to inform her approach. Whilst working in fashion design in Hong Kong she picked up her palette knife again and starting mark-making with expressionist abstracts, alongside a developing spiritual practice.
Kati later relocated from Hong Kong back to the UK and to Brixton, she showed with artist’s collective ‘Studio 42’ and went on to move to Surrey, where she now lives. Inspired by the natural beauty of the Surrey Hills and nature reflected in her work. Currently based at Lockwood Arts in Guildford, a centre for neurodivergent and the arts.
Abstract painting reflects a return to her roots and innate expression within —a medium through which she channels her passion for colour, vision beyond form, breaking down emotion into mark-making and spiritual expression.
Selected Clients
WAAW, Women Artists’ Art Week
Beaverbrook, Coach House Spa
Samsara Yachts
In The Studio
