Contemporary artist Cathy Read creates urban landscape paintings that reflect city life in all it's glory. As a child, Cathy's mother took her to Manchester City Art Gallery where the Ford Maddox Brown painting Work inspired a passion to create art.
Her distinctive style developed from early, predominantly circle based abstracts into urban landscapes, fuelled by a lifelong interest in buildings and rooted in a childhood dominated by the cotton mills of Middleton.
Cathy exhibits around the UK, Europe, is collected in Canada, Africa, and New Zealand. In 2021 she was selected for the 20th international Art Exchange Exhibition in Chiba, Japan. Cathy regularly exhibits with the Society of Women Artists in London, being awarded the Barbara Tate Memorial Award in 2015. Her work is in the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford and various corporate collections. She appeared on Sky Arts Landscape Artist of the Year in 2016&2017. Artist participant in Katerina Seda art project at the Tate Modern 2011