Cathy Read

Art specialisms: Painting

Cathy Read - Artist Working on Manchester Map

Society of Women Artists Exhibition
Mall Galleries, The Mall, London
25th-29th June, 2024
Cathy will be Demonstrating on Saturday 29th June, 2024.

Open Studios at Cathy’s Tingewick Studio.
Next Dates

July 20th 2024
August 31st 2024

Art Classes
Expressive Watercolour – Tuesday evenings 7-9pm
25th June-16th July (5 dates)
Cost: £145 for the block or £35 per session pay as you go.

Mixed Media – Saturday Morning 9:30-11:30am
6th July – 3rd August (5 dates)
Cost: £145 for the block or £35 per session pay as you go.

Portfolio

Biography:

A visit to Manchester’s City Gallery inspired Cathy’s fascination with art. Although she loved to draw, discovering the painting Work by Ford Maddox Brown was when she realised the power of art to tell inspiring stories. The desire to create Art that inspired a Wow was born.

Drawing inspiration from her home in Middleton, Lancashire, she set about photographing the chimneys and mills that remained. Looking for the unusual perspectives of a child. Especially the sense where tall buildings loom, like they’re falling. Equally fascinated by urban decay and contemporary architecture, tried using an abstract technique she’d developed to capture the essence of these memories and something clicked. The portfolio grew from there.

Cathy’s art is in collections as far afield as Canada, Africa and New Zealand. St Catherine’s College Quad was one of the last paintings commissioned by Oxford University Press to illustrate the historic Oxford Almanack(1674-2019). The painting is now in the Ashmolean Museum. Other notable Commissions are for Bahlsen’s UK Headquarters and the Royal Latin School.

She has exhibited with the Royal Watercolour Society, the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolour and as a member of the Society of Women Artists since 2014, receiving the Barbara Tate Memorial Award in 2015. In 2016 and 2017, she appeared on Sky Arts Landscape Artist of the Year. Shortlisted for Artist and Illustrators Artist of the Year 2017 and recipient of the Wild and Tame award. Cathy was also an Artist Participant in the Katerina Seda Project “From Morning until Night” at the Tate Modern.
She lives in a chapel near Buckingham, which she converted with her husband, before Grand Designs made it popular. Her studio is in Tingewick.

Contact details:

cathy@cathyreadart.com
07818240116

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