Gallery
Click on the small pictures on the right to enlarge, and for information about the works in Catrin's words.
Many more artworks can be seen by clicking on one of these headings -
Landscapes | Still life | Travel | Workshops | Cerdd dant | Ear markings | Cefnddwysarn | Gardens | The sea | Boats | Fragile things | Coloured gloves | Tir | Eden Art | John Cale Series | Influence
Solas
It was at the Co-op in Solas that I shopped while on North Uist - the fantastic beach Traigh Iar is nearby. Oil painting - summer 2009.
Loch nam madadh - Lochmaddy
The village and port on the island of North Uist where I stayed for 5 weeks during the summer of 2009 - this is one of the first ink drawings from the Tir project.
Arenig
Re-visiting some of the lanscapes of my childhood by going on 'drives' with my father through Meirionnydd in the spring and summer of 2009 - working in paint this time.
Yr Aran o Ty Cerrig
From spring and summer 2009 - more Meirionnydd landscapes made before the Eisteddfod arrived.
Gerddi'r Plas - Gardens of the Plas
A drwing from a residency at Plas Tan-y-Bwlch arranged by Celf Eden | Eden Art - a week of working hard and happy memories - June 2009.
Ffrwythau amser - Tea time
Still life from 2009 - flowers and kitchen crockery and utensils - memories of my mother's busy kitchen.
Hermeto
As part of the Coloured Gloves project I painted while Huw Warren played the music of Hermeto Pascoal on the piano - I've tried to convey the rhythm and playfulness of the music.
Harbwr glas - Blu harbour
Another view of Aberdaron and the bay beyond - this time in oil paints - from 2008.
Edrica's Quay
Houses, boats and the coast from 2008. This piece has developed from reading and studying the work of Edrica Huws - an unfamiliar name before the exhibition of her work in Holyhead, 2007.
Mountain heather
I've worked on a number of pieces based on a series of drawings of Llithfaen - each one is different and may even convey my emotions while working on each specific piece, 2008.
Towards the quarry
Ink, pastel and stitchwork - from 2008 following a walking and drawing trip to Blaenau Ffestiniog.
Aberdaron
Penrhyn Llyn coastal landscape - ink, pastel and stitchwork - 2007.
Party at Derfel
Oil paints and pastels on paper. The influence of the home and of tea-time - still life from 2007.
On the quay
The original On the quay were completed in 2002 - before the small boats - but this piece is from 2007. Monoprint onto fabric with inks and stitched fabrics.
Porthdinllaen
Paint and oil pastels on paper 2006. One of the first coastal works I completed - the series began as paintings.
Cerdd dant frocks
I've been working on 'cerdd dant' pieces of since 2003, but most of the work on these frocks was completed during a residency at Oriel Mostyn in 2005 - these were exhibited in Kansas, 2007.
A piece of land
Ink and stitchwork - this was the first time I experimented with metal print letters - the 'land' is Llwyniolyn and the field names are an important part of the work.
Boat eisteddfod
Part of the Good Ideas project - a collaboration with JKA Sailmakers of Pwllheli - a full size sail for a Topper sailing boat was completed but I've made over 50 of these small boats.
Pea song
Oil paints and pastels on card - a collage sewn together. One of a series of abstract works from 2005.
Pink dresser
Ink and stitchwork - one of my first large stitchwork pieces. Shows strong influence of the crockery and the dresser once again.
Tea drinking in Budapest
Oil on canvas - 2000. The influence of travelling - a trip to Budapest as a lecturer overseeing a crowd of art students. One of the works shown in the Collecting Eggs exhibition.
Sheep ear-markings
Thought to be African shields by some and surf-boards by others - these large Sheep ear-mark works were part of the Belongings exhibitions of 1998.
Sheep ear-markings
Detail - monoprint and ink onto paper attached to shaped wooden panels.
Fragile things
Gwreiddiau / Roots - a project by Cywaith Cymru.Artworks Wales - Bala 1997. Children's art workshops to create banners were part of the project - this procession took place during Eisteddfod week.
Fragile things
Gwreiddiau / Roots - a project by Cywaith Cymru.Artworks Wales - Bala 1997. An installation - rememberances of childhood, familiar faces on plates and the first sightings of the sheep ear-marks.
Welsh teas
The Welsh teas have been an important element in my work - the Bara Brith performances of 1995, still-lifes of 1997, Crynierth picnics of 1998 and the more recent pieces showing children's parties.
Glynllifon
In the early 1990s I had a studio at Parc Glynllifon - this work from 1994 is of spring's awakening in the gardens - when I'd become a mother for the first time.
America
Oil paints, pastels, spray-can paint and collage onto paper. From a 1991 series of works following a trip to New York, Philadelphia and Washington.
Cefnddwysarn
The view from Llwyniolyn towards Cefnddwysarn - one of the large oils on canvas which were part of my degree show at Cardiff in 1989.
