Catharine Somerville
Web: http://www.catharinesomerville.com
Catharine Somerville was born in Toronto, Canada. She studied Fine Art at York University and Georgian College .After working as a set designer, painter and teacher in Canada, Catharine moved to England and set up an artist based teaching atelier in 1992 called Herringbroom Studio in Sussex, England.
A natural colourist, Catharine has spent her life exploring approaches to paint
. Whilst living in the Caribbean she painted a series based upon the tropics and seduction. This early work led to the culmination of her recent painting “Mosquito Coast” which was awarded the Chairman’s Prize at West Dean College 2007.
During the early part of 2008 under support of the Edward James Foundation she has lived and painted for five weeks in the jungle amongst the magical Las Pozas created by Edward James in Xilitla, Mexico.
Always Catharine continues to investigate the mutations of her fantasies and memories and explore the experience. As such the hominess victores travel toward death but then mutate to something else.