artist statement
I enjoy walking in the landscape and I also have a love of abstraction and so the two come together in my art. I work in different media according to the effects I want to achieve, sometimes oil, sometimes mixed media and often collage using my own hand painted and printed papers. Whatever medium I use, my paintings usually have many layers to them and I enjoy the idea of a painting having a ‘history’ in this way. I also have a great love of colour and the layering process, especially when using thin translucent papers, can create some amazing and unexpected colours which I find very exciting. The landscapes I portray are not actual places but rather ‘memories’ of places I have visited often, largely in my home county of Yorkshire or ‘glimpses’ and impressions of places seen in passing.
artist bio
Catherine has mostly lived and worked in Yorkshire and her main inspiration comes from the landscape near where she lives which gives her a deep sense of place. She has shown her work in galleries across the north of England and the Midlands and she is a member of several local art collectives in Yorkshire including The Leeds Fine Artists.
She has been working as a professional artist for 15+ years. Her first teacher was her father, a skilled amateur painter and when young she often used to go out on sketching trips with him into the countryside. It was these trips that gave her a love of landscape which still inspires her today and she continues with outdoor sketching.
After pursuing a more academic education she then went on to work in the Cultural sector as a manager which has informed and assisted her in the organisation of her art practice. Whilst still working she continued with her art, working for a long while in textiles which continues to influence her art in her love of texture. After obtaining a grade A in A level art she continued her art education by attending numerous short courses in many varied aspects of art including abstraction as well as traditional oil painting and collage.
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