Louise Cattrell
The artist responds to the quality of light seen within the timescale of day, season or year, within a landscape. The work selected for the Visual gallery includes a series painted during a residency within the spectacular theatre of the Swiss Alps and another series inspired by the extraordinary connection of sky and sea found in Venice. Louise uses oils and watercolour in her paintings and in printmaking, etching and monoprint. Trained at Duncan of Jordanstone, Dundee and the Royal College of Art she has exhibited widely; including a number of solo shows in England and Scotland and numerous group shows including at the Whitechapel Gallery, London. Louise has also undertaken residences at the Berwick Gymnasium, Berwick-upon-Tweed, Ireland, Sri Lanka, America and Switzerland and won awards including SED Travelling scholarship, John Minton RCA and the Cheltenham Drawing Prize. Commissions have been undertaken for the MOD, Whitehall and the Leukeamia Centre, Birmingham. Her work is in the collections of the MOD, Scottish Arts Council, Phoenix Assurance Company and Reuters.