Kate Follett is a New England-based landscape painter. As a child in Vermont, she loved following along with Bob Ross and creating imaginary landscapes. She studied painting and two-dimensional design at Skidmore College and Amherst College, and received an MFA in fiction writing from Emerson College. Her professional work in educational writing led her to rediscover a love of the natural sciences, specifically geology, biology, and ecology. She drew on this love of nature, along with a love of wilderness travel, when she returned to painting in 2014.
Kate began studying under Debra Highberger at the Acorn Gallery and School of Art in Marblehead, Massachusetts. Influenced by Emily Carr, Ed Mell, Georgia O’Keefe, and other “expressionist landscape” artists such as the Canadian Group of Seven, she began to produce landscape works in oil. Her paintings have been exhibited in the Salem Hospital; The Acorn Gallery in Marblehead, Massachusetts; the Salem Arts Association Gallery; Salmon Falls Gallery in Shelburne Falls, MA; Fischer Arts in Chester, Vermont; the Bryan Memorial Gallery in Jeffersonville, Vermont; the Oxbow Gallery in Easthampton, MA; and Arthouse in Wilmington, Vermont. In 2021, she exhibited a solo show at the Anchor House of Artists in Northampton, MA.