Kate Henderson

Kate Henderson is an artist based in East Lothian she is an elected Associate Member of the British Society of Master Glass Painters (AMGP) a professional Member of the Society of Scottish Artists (SSA) and an elected Artist member of the Paisley Arts Institute. She has served three years as Chair of the Scottish Glass Society. Kate has been teaching for over twenty years and for eleven years she taught stained glass summer school for the Lifelong Learning at Edinburgh College of Art. Since the closure of the stained-glass department at ECA she now teaches courses in stained glass and painting from her workshop in East Lothian. Over the years, Kate has won several awards for her glass and painting work including the Amanda Moriarity Award in 2020 organised by the Contemporary Glass Society, where she spent a two-week residency with British Glass Artist Mark Angus in his studio in Graz, Austria developing advanced techniques in stained glass. In 2023 Kate was joint winner of the Reflections of the Lord Mayor of London an annual stained-glass competition. She still works closely with this organisation as a judge on the panel. In 2024 she won the House for an Art Lover Award