Kate Soko

Even as a child my passion was in the natural world



This passion was affirmed by the subjects selected for my drawings and paintings.  If I couldn’t be around animals, I would draw them.  I loved to draw. Constantly drawing and redrawing the body and imagining the movement of the muscles and bones under their skin, I would study my subject through my drawings. 

 

Parents and friends were confused when I chose an education in the seemingly contrasting field of science.  Yet, my two divergent talents - arts and science - converged on a single interest, the natural world.  I believe science and art are not that different from each other, rather they work together to understand a subject. 

 

Many technical and scientific pursuits are initiated by the imagination of an artist. Likewise scientific exploration opens up a world to document in the arts.  Personally, my art allows for the intense focus on a subject, and in turn the more I know about a subject the better my artwork becomes.

 

I feel it is vital for me to keep my hands in both the arts and sciences in order to keep a balance in my life.