Cathy Read

Contemporary artist Cathy Read creates urban landscape paintings that reflect city life in all its glory.
Cathy used art to develop fine motor skills in children when working as an occupational therapist. Realising her "Artist dream" remained whilst on a career break, she decided to do it now or regret it! Since then, Cathy has tenaciously built her career, learning on the job.
The 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 giant cotton mills of Middleton, Manchester. Cathy exhibits around the UK, Europe, and is collected as far afield as 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 and was awarded the Barbara Tate Memorial Award in 2015. Her work is in the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford and corporate collections.  She appeared on Sky Arts Landscape Artist of the Year in 2016 and 2017.
She lives in a chapel near Buckingham, which she converted with her husband: close enough to London to get her Urban Architecture fix when needed! Cathy splatters paint and sings loudly in her Buckinghamshire Studio, when not steering a canal boat along the British waterways and wielding a windlass.

Offers: Demonstrations, Talks, Mini workshops, Workshops

Media: Watercolour, acrylic and acrylic inks, masking, particularly detailed and extensive use of masking fluid, mixed media

Subjects: Architecture, urban landscapes, abstracts, reflections

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Will travel to: Up to 2 hours from home. Also Manchester and Devon

Email: cathy@cathyreadart.com

Phone: 07818 240116