Catherine Beale specialises in watercolour techniques across a number of surfaces, and paints landscapes and portrait commissions from her hillside studio on the edge of Bath. Her first book, Capturing Light – creating radiant landscapes in watercolour, was published in May 2023 by Search Press as part of their Innovative Artist series. Catherine is a member of the Society of Women Artists and teaches at the Royal West of England Drawing School, Cornwall School of Art, Chapel Cottage Studios and art societies across England and Wales. Her next solo exhibition is in October in Bath. Keep in touch at art@catherinebeale.com via Instagram and Facebook or view her paintings on her website www.catherinebeale.com
In this series I will be taking a different landscape subject each month, based on a photograph taken on my explorations into the countryside. I’ll be demonstrating how to paint different lighting conditions in watercolour, looking at how tone, marks and colourcapture the light qualities of the English landscape. The first three paintings highlight choices of colour, colour temperature and saturation in particular, while the final two explore subtle markmaking and lifting-off techniques to create ephemeral sunbeams and mists in more detail.
