A wonderful evening was had with guest featured artist Cathy Read showing her beautiful paintings of local scenes around our lovely location in Towcester.
This was the first time an artist has created a body of work especially for launch at L’Atelier11 and they were very well received; as was Cathy’s fascinating talk about the process she has evolved for her distinctive work.
Cathy Read captures memories and emotions by re-imagining iconic architecture using explosive, colourful drops and trails of paint, held together with a structure of white lines.
Inspired by looming, dramatic urban and industrial architecture, she draws on influences from various cities in the UK. In a previous life she worked as an Occupational Therapist, using large art projects to help develop fine motor skills in children.
She 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. Originally from Manchester, she now lives in a chapel near Buckingham which she converted with her husband.
To find out more, visit her website here.
