Catrin Webster
Catrin’s creative practice balances conceptual interests in notions of place and landscape; performance and presence, together with exploring painting as both action and object; material and image.
Catrin Webster was born in Cardiff and studied at the Slade School of Art, University College London. She recently returned to live and work in Aberystwyth.
Much of her work is based on being in a particular place; garden, park, city or countryside and is often in response to travelling, for example by walking and cycling.Throughout her career she has explored a range painting materials, and now concentrates primarily on painting in oil and watercolour; small and large scale. Catrin is also passionate about the potential of contemporary painting to continuously reinvent itself, drawing new languages, compositional approaches, visual structures and understandings, through the study of other forms of two-dimensional media, such as the televisual. She has made many studies of screen based images in ink, watercolour and digital drawings, and has also collaborated in the production of projection and painting based installations.
Catrin has undertaken a number of international residencies, and has exhibited nationally and internationally. Her paintings are held in national collections such as the National Museum of Wales and the Arts Council of Great Britain Collection.