W&N materials used
Artists' Oil Colour,
Winton Oil Colour,
Galeria Acrylic,
Artists’ Water Colour,
Cotman Water Colour
About Catherine Beale
I have painted portraits and landscapes for fifteen years and recently enjoying life drawing with painter Saied Dai RP. My exhibited portraits include: “Madame Chairman” preselected for the 2011 RWA Autumn Exhibition and Bath Society of Artists’ Summer Exhibition. The oil portrays the vulnerability of a past Council Chair against the huge backdrop of the Council Chambers.
A loving watercolour of my son “Robbie” was chosen for Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours Exhibition. “The Butterfly House” was selected for Bath’s Holburne Portrait Prize and communicates the feeling of being cornered by opposing forces of family and addiction to painting. It was selected as Editor’s Choice in The Artist Magazine.
I am involved in community art projects including Bath’s 2008 and 2010 open air Sculpture Projects bringing together schools, businesses, artists, and the public to celebrate and share art.
Catherine Beale's Work
I paint people portraits to create a strong, personal encounter and to show the way light falls over form. The subject gazes directly out communicating a feeling or thought. My favourite portrait painter who achieves this is Lorenzo Lotto.
I draw in a single source of one-directional light, to show lost edges and “white-out” highlights. I edit photographic notes to push contrast and saturation further. My curiosity with light developed over eleven years living in tropical Asia. The eclectic mix of Chinese, Malay and Indian cultures infuse colour into all areas of daily life.
I use saturated colour, even within shadows. I juxtapose colours causing visual vibrations.
I paint in Winsor and Newton watercolour tubes onto watercolour board. My oils are painted directly onto the luminous white of pre-stretched, deep edge Winsor and Newton canvases.
I favour the more oily viridian hue, rose madder and french ultramarine. I start loosely with larger brushes, zoning in with directional square brush strokes and picking out final detail with a rigger. I admire Peter Blake’s watercolours and the big oil portraits of Brendan Kelly.
I am working towards the RWA an October show at Trowbridge Gallery, Castle Cary in Somerset.
Catherine Beale uses Winsor & Newton because
they are always reliable, always stocked and have been part of my painting landscape from the very beginning.
For further information on Catherine Beale visit:
www.catherinebeale.com
telephone: 07891 409490
Studio visits by appointment www.catherinebeale.com