Catherine lives on the Mornington Peninsula after moving from the UK in 2001.

Catherine is an established, professional, award-winning artist and has been painting for over 30 years. She has held several solo and group exhibitions since arriving in Australia and won awards for her portrait and figurative works as well as landscape.
Her most recent award in 2019 was The Kenneth Jacks Drawing Award for Best in Show and Best Charcoal for her work “Lost In New York.”
Catherine’s current work can be viewed at Manyung Gallery Flinders

Catherine works in a range of media including acrylic, oils, gouache and particularly drawing in charcoal and natural pigments. She has an extensive knowledge of both colour and the media which she uses to her advantage in her work. Her paintings are often built up with several layers of glazed colour to create both depth and texture. Her work is often innovative and spontaneous, working from memories and small sketches of captured moments.

“The Mornington Peninsula is a wonderfully diverse environment. From the plains of the north to the rolling hills of Main Ridge and Red Hill, down to Flinders, to the craggy cliff faces of Cape Schanck, Bushrangers Bay and beyond to the sandy tip of the peninsula. I am drawn to the edge, the fringe of the Peninsula landscape, the interface between land and sea and the expansive, panoramic skies which complete the unity of the experience. And that combination fashions the drama of light, space and structure that is forever creating the various moods that are my inspiration.

My walks along the coast are the stimulus for my work. Photography, observational sketches, and memory all become the reference points that contribute to the creation of my paintings which are ultimately my connection and my response to this space and all it embraces.

I watch the changing light and its impact on the shapes and landscape around me. The dramatic skies looking across from the water’s edge and the embankments and steep overhang of the very edge of this land. Because natural erosion caused by storm and weather impact on this terrain, it changes constantly, and this is part of the transitioning elements shown in my collection of paintings.”

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