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.

Chelsea School of Art, London UK

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.