Kate Enters, Figurative Painter

Kate Enters is a Hertfordshire based figurative painter who explores the aesthetic inspired by contemporary issues and images. Her paintings depict a recognisable snapshot of daily life, occasionally conveying a bittersweet moment. There is often a social commentary running through her work but it is up to the audience to fill in the bigger picture or remember a personal experience that the visual she shares may evoke. Kate does not wish to dictate or manipulate a viewer’s perception of what she paints. It is a shared experience in that way.

Kate is passionate about supporting artists and is the founder and director of ArtCan, an international arts organisation providing opportunities and fair payment for artists. She creates an annual exhibition programme at venues in the UK and overseas, honed through her background in events management for high end art museums, celebrity charity events and arts PR. Over the last decade she has developed this community of artists and art supporters across 26 countries, built international corporate partnerships and during the pandemic worked with a designer to create a bespoke virtual art gallery. ArtCan has been awarded Most Empowering Artist Opportunity Provider - UK for the past three years and is a member of Social Enterprise UK and the Global Climate Coalition.

Kate was a selector for the ING Discerning Eye exhibition at the Mall Galleries, London in 2022, featured on the Ministry of Arts podcast and in the Artists Responding To magazine. In 2023 Kate was awarded a Women Entrepreneur Award for the Arts, and was a 2024 finalist for the Great British Businesswomen of the Year in the Creative Category, and Great British Entrepreneur of the Year finalist in the Arts Category.

Kate works at the prize-winning London architecture practice, Stanton Williams. Prior to working at Stanton Williams Kate worked at Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios after a career in PR working with high profile clients and organisations that included the Serpentine Gallery, RADA, the Raisa Gorbachev Foundation and the V&A Museum.