Catherine Denvir

Catherine Denvir

London, London, United Kingdom

About Catherine Denvir

My prime motivation for painting is quite simply the actual mental and physical process of creating an image. From the initial inspiration and development of the idea, using a combination of traditional drawings and sketches to digital collage and iPad drawings culminating with the final oil painting onto canvas. Striving throughout the whole process to capture the core essence and mood of the original concept but also open to the idea of taking the image to somewhere I hadn’t imagined. I divide my time between London and Cortona, Italy these contrasting locations provide much inspiration.Themes that I attribute to this hybrid life of city and countryside include man’s fleeting embellishment of nature, the ivy covered ruin of castle on a hill beyond the motorway, slicing through the landscape. I am interested in the idea of ‘once upon a timeness’ of life, it’s stories, memories of childhood real and semi imagined, with its hovering and presence of a half-understood world.

Education:

Chelsea School of Art, London UK

Events:

Glasgow and Hampstead Art Fairs with Arusha Gallery Edinburgh.
Feature Saatchi 'In the Studio'
Article Radius Magazine NJ USA to coincide with group show at Jeffrey Meier Gallery NJ
Work featured in Taiwanese Art book 'The Age of European Drawing'
Work featured in 3x3 Magazine, New York
Works sold via Saatchiart to collectors in Australia, United States,Italy, Uk, Singapore, Germany, Canada.

Exhibitions:

286 Gallery, Earls Court London. 2012 Group Show
Bastian Contrario, Cortona Tuscany, Italy, 2012, one woman show
August /September 2015 one woman show Blackshed Gallery, Sussex UK
Joint exhibition with Antonio Massarutto at his gallery Cortona Tuscany Italy.