Catherine O'Hare

I currently live and work in the Chevin Forest, West Yorkshire.
I have always, throughout my artistic career been fascinated by the still life tradition.
I am interested in focused detail, the shapes created between objects and light and shade.
I created a series of square paintings - ‘Crushed’ they have a trompe l’oeil effect and depict flowers literally crushed into a small space. They have a beautiful vibrant colour but a claustrophobic feel.

Two years ago I set up a children's art club called 'The Paint Box Menston' which I run from my art studio cabin space.
This has helped my own art practice, where I have experimented through my planning lots of different art techniques, printmaking and looking at lots of different Artists, which has inspired me and keeps my art fresh. The children's approach to art is also so energetic that it keeps it fun and their enthusiasm inspires me too.

Sunderland Polytechnic 1897 - 1990
Fine Art Class 2:1

After graduating form Art school in 1990, I was immediately selected to take part in contemporary art auctions at Bonhams in Knightsbridge, London.
From 1991 to 1994 I was represented by The Vera Grodzinski Gallery in London and took part in a prestigious group show of contemporary still life painters at King Street Gallery in London.
I have subsequently taken part in numerous group and solo shows in the UK: Walker Galleries Harrogate group show 2010 - 12
Mercer Gallery Summer Show 2018
Cartwright Hall Bradford Summer Show 2018 and have received many commissions with work held in a number of private collections.



















In 2012 Catherine was a second stage finalist in the prestigious John Moores Painting Prize in which she collaborated on a surreal portrait with her husband who is also a painter.