Katie Clemson was an accomplished printmaker and painter who delighted in the sunlight and colour found in the Australian landscape.  Katie often took inspiration from water; from Shoalhaven rocks and reeds to Pittwater  boatsheds, and later on the Nullarbor Plain: “I strive to show a link with coasts and inland sea - the great mirages of those heat soaked afternoons, the shallow lakes crusted with salt and mirroring the skies and red dirts in their white surface.  Landscape becomes entwined with hints of water.  Water from the Great Australian Bight reflects for hundreds of miles through the skies where underneath lakes that never were come and go.”

Katie Clemson was born in Temora, NSW and lived in England for many years, where she started “White Gum Press” in the 1980s - a print workshop specialising in woodcut, linocut and monotype in the south of England.   Katie exhibited extensively in Britain in both group and solo shows, including the Redfern Gallery in London.   From 1995 until 2001, Katie was based in Canberra, while her husband was the British High Commissioner.  For Katie, this resulted in a number of exhibitions and a commission for the foyer of the British High Commission building.  Katie had an extensive background in printmaking, including many teaching posts both in Australia and Britain, and was co-author of The Complete Manual of Relief Printmaking published by Collins.  Her work is represented in collections the world over, including the Ashmolean Museum (Oxford), Ruskin School of Art (Oxford), Artbank, Brooklyn Museum (New York) Curtin University (Perth) and the State Library of Western Australia.  Katie Clemson died in November 2007.