Cathy lives in Johannesburg and began her art journey in school at the age of 17 years. Straight after school she illustrated school books, magazines and did cartoons for a daily newspaper.

 

Cathy paints in many mediums including acrylics, chalk pastels, mixed and oils; subjects include portraits, figures, pets, wild life, florals and landscapes. She is best known for her skill in realistic portraiture. Her varied career has included working as an illustrator for books, magazines and newspapers, doing cartoons, murals, being an air-hostess for SAA and using her creative abilities to run her own business doing stained glass and sand-blasting.

 

Cathy became a full-time artist 2014 when she started to teach art to children and adults, she currently teaches five art classes a week in Edenglen.

 

Her philosophy: “The most important thing you can teach your students is how to get along without you.” She has taken part in a number of exhibitions and her work has found homes as far as Canada and Colorado in the US. Her amazing ability to capture character in her portraits made her the 2016 Rotary Portrait Award Winner.