Catherine Beale is a painter specialising in super-vibrant, “gravity painted” experimental watercolours! 

Catherine's artistic practice began in Singapore in the 1990s which has influenced her use of strong colours. Since her return to the UK in 2006 she has been taken by the Cotswold countryside around her hillside studio - its mists and woods. Catherine's home borders the Heritage City of Bath whose graceful Regency buildings, bridges and canal are another major source of inspiration. 

Catherine strives to convey the quality of light with the excitement of “fast and loose" watercolours. New pigments are like ink in their intensity and can be applied onto all sorts of surfaces. By dropping running paint into water, Catherine mingle hues together, encouraging their natural tendency to channel across the surface like rivers and create subtle water marks.

Catherine has been told her demonstrations are friendly, enthusiastic and generous with information. She is an SAA registered tutor and elected member of the Society of Women Artists. Catherine's watercolour portraits have exhibited with the Royal Watercolour Society and Institute of Painters in Watercolours.