Catherine Garner

Born in Maldon, in the United Kingdom Catherine was called to study art full-time after changing career from orthopaedic surgery practice in 2012. She moved to study and practice Art in Barcelona and now lives there full-time.

Her longtime interest in health and wellbeing led her to study and practice meditation and healing modalities where the focus was on changing mental, emotion and physical experience. This has greatly influenced her art creation and exploration into the subjects of depth, perception, and feeling.

"Depth is a particularly important sensation I love to explore when I create my work because I feel that everything that really matters in life is under the surface of what we see at face value.

There are so many different layers to explore, we just need to pause and be open to see and feel them.

When I finish a piece, I often find when I pause and look deeply into it, my eyes soften as my gaze travels around, bringing into focus all the different layers of light and dark colour. I often have the sensation of a 3D experience, travelling in and out of the painting. It amazes me that colour and texture on a canvas can affect us in this way and leave us with a sense of calm and wonder."