Katie Barnsley is part-time secondary art and design teacher, yoga instructor, and artist. After completing her art foundation at Loughborough University, she studied fine art at Oxford Brookes University, specialising in figurative art and the female form. She now paints in her home studio in Nottingham. Her current oil painting series started with inspiration from yoga poses, showing both beauty and strength in the figure. The series has developed into an admiration for dynamic sports and action portraiture, using thick, colourful paint and expressive, gestural movements to craft her figurative works.