Katkin is a British painter working predominantly in oil and collage. She explores how images can hold multiple temporalities at once: the remembered past, the constructed present, and the imagined future.

Influenced by her career at Hazlitt Holland-Hibbert, artists such as Peter Blake, David Hockney, Barbara Hepworth and R.B. Kitaj have significantly shaped her practice.

Collage operates as both a conceptual and physical tool: layering time, disrupting singular perspectives, and allowing fragments of narrative to coexist.

Katkin’s research is informed creative writing, image hoarding, and drawing. Each painting becomes a form of auto-fiction, part lived experience - part invention. Within the work, multiple voices intersect. By combining personal material with found images, Katkin examines what is preserved, what is altered, and what is reimagined over time.

Ultimately, the paintings function as constructed memory-scapes, sites where time is compressed, narratives overlap, and personal history becomes both subject, and method.