Abstract Sculpture
Catherine works with clay and plaster, scrim and cloth, binding all together, allowing the sculpture to dry to the point of breaking. She then repairs, rebuilds; often going through this circular process many times; an alchemy of decay, destruction and rebuilding. The pieces are then cast in bronze or remain in plaster. Each piece is made as part of a limited run, and can be cast in bronze to create a sculpture that embraces the elements and develops with time. Her most recent work is concerned with the emergence of the image at the surface, strongly influenced by archaeology, alchemy, philosophy and poetry.
Endlessly I walk with you (2012)
Bronze floating on steel - £15,000
This sculpture came into being after an enquiry into philosophy ( the work of Richard Kearney and The Wake of the imagination ) around the importance of 'the other' in the creative proccess. Its about Love, the conversation and how the conversation ' calls' endless possibility
Gabriel (2011)
Bronze - £6,000
Sculpture of possibility
Bachelard's Paradox (2009)
Bronze floating on steel - £8,000
This sculpture came into form from a conversation with the late Dr. Murray Cox, friend and mentor who ran Broad moor for many years.
He was very fond of quoting poetry or philosophy and he said " the image has to touch the depths before it reaches the surface" taken from the work of Gaston Bachelard... it evoked this image.
The Interior Angel (2015)
Bronze - £8,000
This sculpture came into form after a conversation with the late john Odonohue about what is needed when things fall about. It was about a story I had heard attributed to David Whyte about a man who climbs a mountain and reaches the top, has to cross another mountain accross a treacherous bridge. He sits down and waits for his Interior angel. At the end of the day an old woman arrives carrying yak shit...she bows at him, looks him straight in the eye says namaste and follow. He follows the angel - what was impossible becomes possible
Gabriel - Tryptych(2011)
Plaster on wood - £2,000
Gabriel (2011)
Plaster - £750
This sculpture came into form from a memory of my father standing in a doorway with the light behind him.
Gabriel is for me the idea that what is impossible becomes possible, the endless struggle in the creative proccess. The angelic concept in your head and heart.