Catherine Beale: Rooted in the Landscape – paintings from Catherine’s new book 'Capturing light’ 

Catherine’s new collection of luminous paintings are truly rooted in the landscape. Depicting windswept groves, to ancient individuals that mark the passage of time, her works are also preoccupied with dramatic optical light effects. Water glitters and sunbeams filter through mists, all captured in her unique ‘gravity painted’ swirling watercolours.

Catherine explains that her watercolours are ‘gravity-painted’ on artboard and wooden panels “creating visible collisions and surprising tributaries across their surface.” These rigid surfaces faithfully record the semi-abstract marks of paint puddles, drips, back runs and watermarks, revealing the naturally beautiful passage of water through paint. Catherine combines this with punches of colour straight from the tube, a legacy of her years as an oil painter. 



‘Rooted in the landscape’ takes place near Catherine’s studio at the community owned Jacobean pub The Packhorse. Opening on Thursday at 5pm, the exhibition continues at noon on Friday with a free opportunity to see her demonstrate her unusual ‘gravity painted’ watercolour (by invitation). The Exhibition closes at 11pm on Saturday. Thereafter remaining works can be viewed online. catherinebeale.com

3 October: opens 5pm, closes 10pm 
4 October: opens with free demonstration, 12noon, closes 11pm
5 October: opens 12noon, closes 11pm.

Image: Falling leaves in Newton Park (watercolour on clay ‘artbord’).