ABOUT

Kay Rodriques is a storyteller working across oil painting, drawing, printmaking, creative nonfiction, and artist’s books. Her practice is grounded in figurative reality, exploring the emotional and psychological dimensions of human experience through solitary figures, expressive colour, and semi-abstract compositions. Printmaking and painting are in continual dialogue: the spontaneous marks and atmospheric textures of her viscosity monotypes find their way into her paintings, where they are transformed through gesture, colour, and the interplay of figure and landscape. Drawing on the histories and lived experiences of Northern California, Northern Ireland, and Jamaica, her work explores memory, migration, displacement, and belonging. Irony threads through these explorations, revealing contradictions between what we believe, what we inherit, and how we live.

Her latest publication, Forty Goodbyes, appears in Inlandia Journal. Archives of her ongoing project, Magnitude, which weaves together remembrance, social history, landscape, loss, and personal reflection, can be found here.