Dead Trees in Ninnis Woods Conté on Paper 2.5x3.5f

Catherine Metcalf B. A. Hon's Catherine was born in Kensington, but has lived in Burnham-on-Sea since a child. She studied Fine Art Painting at Kingston-Upon-Thames, London. Whilst in her 2nd Year at University, Cathy won The David Murray Award for Landscape Painting from the Royal Academy of Art. Her final year of university was spent with an appointed Royal Academy Tutor and travelling to Derbyshire and Cornwall to do landscape paintings under his direction.

Cathy is particularly interested in movement and atmosphere, and inspired by the way by the way light and wind moves through the landscapes affecting the environment and it?s moods. Her drawing are in Conté as this best reflects the effects she is trying to achieve. You will see a contrast in the Conté Drawings and watercolours. She is greatly affected by the mood of her surroundings and her medium she chooses to use reflects this.

When drawing people and interiors she likes to know the person or place well in order to fill the drawing with the character of that person/place and puts all her feelings and memories into the work. She paints with either Oil or Encaustic?s, which take her a considerable about of time..several months to complete. The Encaustic paintings are between 4 to 6ft square in size. Encaustic painting is a very old tradition dating back to the Ancient Greeks who painted using beeswax, dry pigment on lime plaster walls. Cathy has adapted this technique to do her own unique way of painting.