Artwork Description:

Title: Hadleigh Castle

This is the historical ruins of Hadleigh Castle in Essex, and is local to my home town of Leigh-on-sea. I’ve happy childhood memories of taking picnics here in the holidays.

This sunny painting is one of my very first and favourite ink and watercolour sketches, painted in 2022. I used a photograph as a reference.

The original piece was sold in March 2024 at Studio 3 Art gallery in Rayleigh, Essex.

By Kathryn Cooper at KC Sketches

Artist Bio:

Kathryn Cooper is a British artist from Essex, with a passion to create all kinds of original art in ink and watercolour. Including abstract art, surface pattern design, landscapes and urban sketches.

In 2022 she set up a small business called KC Sketches, specialising in house and building portraiture. She enjoys creating  charming commissioned pieces for customers of their homes, wedding venues, business/commercial buildings and a variety of other places with sentimental meaning.

Kathryn spent several years living close to the breath-taking scenery of County Wicklow in Ireland. Those awesome views have been a strong inspiration in creating her miniature watercolour abstract landscapes. These are expressive and intuitive paintings, mostly in a palette of blues and browns. Many of them feature dramatic and stormy skies.