Born in Dallas, Texas, Kate Swayze earned her BFA in Studio Art (painting) at Baylor University. Her work is a culmination of everyone she has ever taught and learned from. She paints nostalgic snapshots of passing memories, alluding to patterns of human experience. In the same way that she is a product of every passing person, so too is her work. She often stretches her painting rags used in the process of prior paintings as the substrate for her next painting, incorporating the instinctive marks of repetitive action to reference this continuous cycle of the latent influence of those around her in a visual manner.” Recently, she has started her own line of textiles and wallpaper at Rutherford’s Design in Dallas, Texas.