Catherine McVean

Catherine is a professional artist best known for her still life oil paintings which she describes as quiet celebrations of everyday life. Living overseas highlighted how important the seasons are to her and how far our sense of time and place is defined by the seasonal changes around us. Catherine loves the anticipation of each season, the changing light and transient nature of the fresh produce and plants available at that time. Catherine’s still life paintings celebrate that transience and those small moments of beauty found in daily life.

Having painted throughout her life, in 2019 she started painting professionally and in 2021 started painting with oils. Catherine was captivated by the rich colours and slow drying time and oils are now her passion and focus. Catherine is primarily self-taught, but has taken a number of short courses at Heatherleys, London Art College and Central St Martins.

Catherine has lived in the UK, Oman and New Zealand but moved back to the UK in 2020 and now paints full time from her studio in Ascot, Berkshire.