Kate Morgan RI
Kate's artwork celebrates nature, fusing colour and imagination to create paintings that represent the lushness and beauty of the natural world. Detail and drama combine to conjure up dreamlike worlds.
Times Square, New York | HM X KATE MORGAN STUDIO Collaboration
ABOUT THE ARTIST 
Kate Morgan RI is an award winning contemporary British artist celebrated for her extraordinary detailed wildlife paintings, primarily executed in watercolour. As an elected member of the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours, she is recognised for her exceptional technical skill and her ability to stretch the expressive potential of the medium.
Her paintings are built through many carefully controlled layers of colour, creating a sense of depth and luminosity that allows even the smallest details - fine feathers, insect wings, seed heads or patterned leaves - to emerge with clarity and precision. This meticulous approach reflects her deep engagement with natural history and close observational drawing.
She creates immersive, densely populated worlds in which plants and animals from a wide range of environments coexist, often merging imagination and reality, creating a more subtly surreal dreamlike experience for the viewer.
Her compositions are packed with life, encouraging the viewer to slow down and explore, discovering hidden insects, a beetle drinking from a raindrop to birds or amphibians nestled within the foliage.
Although her work is informed by scientific research and accurate depictions, it is not purely documentary. Instead, she blends realism with imagination, arranging and painting species that heighten colour, rhythm and visual storytelling. Recurring themes include biodiversity, interdependence and the richness of ecosystems, alongside a subtle acknowledgement of their fragility.
Through the balance of wonder and precision, her paintings celebrate nature’s complexity while inviting reflection on our relationship with the living world.
''Kate Morgan's dream-like detailed paintings glow with the exotic. Jewel-bright flowers twine with creeping lianas, and her beautiful animals appear serene in the colourful vegetation. Her vision of the jungle is a joy in the beauty and sheer variety of nature. It is a world of beauty and abundance, untroubled by humankind. Every plant and creature is exquisitely detailed, drawing your eye in a game of hide and seek.''
- Alice Shirley, (artist and curator)
THE ARTIST
Complex and imaginative in composition, Kate’s work celebrates the plants, animals and insects found in a variety of global habitats with particular reference to indigenous and endangered species. Whilst extensive research informs every painting, Kate imagines habitats from a new perspective, fusing the real with the unreal.
Having obtained her first degree in fine art, Kate subsequently studied at postgraduate level at the Glasgow School of Art and then at Falmouth University where she was awarded her Masters degree.
Kate’s work forms part of many international private collections.