Artist Demonstration – 11 July 2025
Cathy Read
Architecture in Vivid Acrylics

This artist demo will take place on 11 July 2025 in Market Hill Rooms, Fish Hill, Royston SG8 9LB (map). The demo will start at 7.30pm and end at 9.30pm.
Free for members of Royston Arts Society – Non-members £4.00 payable in cash on the door. No need to book!

A visit to Manchester’s City Gallery inspired Cathy’s fascination with art and discovering the painting ‘Work’ by Ford Maddox Brown was when she realised the power of art to tell inspiring stories.  Cathy is self taught. Her earlier paintings were predominantly circle based abstracts later developing into urban landscapes, fuelled by a lifelong interest in buildings.

Cathy 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. She previously worked as an Occupational Therapist, using large art projects to help develop fine motor skills in children.

Paintings are regularly exhibited with the Society of Women Artists in London and she was awarded the Barbara Tate Memorial Award in 2015.  Her painting of St Catherine’s College Quad, commissioned by Oxford University Press, is in the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford. Her works are also held in corporate collections.

In 2017, she was shortlisted for Artist and Illustrators Artist of the Year and received the Wild and Tame award.  She appeared on Sky Arts Landscape Artist of the Year in 2016 and 2017.

Cathy exhibits her paintings around the UK, Europe, and is in collections as far afield as Canada, Africa and New Zealand.

Originally from Manchester, she now lives in a chapel near Buckingham which she converted with her husband. She lives close enough to London to get her Urban Architecture fix when needed.

For more info please see cathyreadart.com