Katarzyna Coleman is a contemporary British fine artist renowned for her atmospheric, softly melancholic paintings and drawings of unplanned industrial and urban landscapes. For over twenty years, her practice has centered heavily on the utilitarian maritime and industrial environment surrounding her studio in Great Yarmouth. Her compositions focus entirely on the stark, geometric lines of the industrial harbour at South Denes in Great Yarmouth, capturing the unexpected elegance of utilitarian landmarks like the town’s power station, gasometers, warehouses, and desolate street lamps. Her work explores themes of human absence. She strips away the narrative “visual clatter” of people and cars to focus purely on scale, proportion, measurement, and tone. Critics frequently note a stylistic kinship to Giorgio Morandi in how she obsessively revisits the same structures to master their intersections of light and shadow.

• BA (Hons) Fine Art – Hornsey College of Art, London (1979–1982).
• MA Fine Art – Manchester College of Art / Manchester University (1982–1983).