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Exhibition information

Contemporary artist Cathy Read draws with masking fluid, creating urban landscape paintings that reflect city life in all its glory.

Cathy Read re-imagines iconic architecture using explosive, colourful drops and trails of paint, held together with a structure of white lines. Inspired by looming and dramatic architecture. She draws on influences from various cities in the UK. Until 2006 she worked as an Occupational Therapist using large art projects to help develop manual skills in children.

Artist information

Cathy is self-taught. Embarking on an Art Journey in 2008, her earlier paintings were circle-based abstracts. Later developing into urban landscapes, fueled by a lifelong interest in buildings. A natural evolution after a childhood dominated by giant decaying mills in the North of England’s Cotton industry.

Cathy exhibits her paintings around the UK, and Europe, invited to join group exhibitions in Japan in 2021 and India in 2022.  Her art is in collections as far afield as Canada, Africa and New Zealand. Oxford University Press commissioned Cathy to create the piece to illustrate the 2016 Oxford Almanack. the painting of St Catherine’s College Quad is now in the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford. Other notable Commissions are for the Reception area of Bahlsen’s UK Headquarters and to commemorate 600 years of the Royal Latin School in Buckingham.

Cathy Read is a member of the Society of Women Artists exhibiting with them in London since 2013, receiving the Barbara Tate Memorial Award in 2015. Cathy has also shown with the Royal Watercolour Society and the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolour in London.

 

Cathy appeared as a contestant on Sky Arts Landscape Artist of the Year in 2016. Returning as a wildcard in 2017. The same year, she was shortlisted for Artist and Illustrators Artist of the Year and received the Wild and Tame award.