Cathy Read Art

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Cathy Read is an Award Winning Contemporary Artist with an instantly recognisable style. She appeared on Sky Arts Landscape Artist of the Year in 2016 and 2017. She captures memories and emotions around iconic architecture. Using explosive, colourful drops and trails of paint, within with a structure of white lines, she draws with masking fluid. Inspired by looming, dramatic urban and industrial architecture from UK cities.  A former Occupational Therapist she used large art projects to help develop motor skills in children. 

She exhibits with the Society of Women Artists in London & was awarded the Barbara Tate Memorial Award in 2015. Her work is in the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford and corporate collections. 

Originally from Manchester she now lives in a chapel near Buckingham which she converted with her husband. When Cathy's not steering 60ft of steel canal boat along the UK's waterways & wielding a windlass, she's singing in her studio.