Catherine (Cat) Outram

I am drawn to the linear around me. I love the tracery of winter branches against a clear sky, or shapes picked out by sunlight. But it is light especially that moves me; Its quality either in strong contrast to shadows or as soft tonal layers. My work covers mostly: views of the city where I have grown up (Edinburgh), the parks and the buildings; landscape (my first love); flowers - either dried and made up of wonderfull scratchy lines, or fresh and full of colour; and collections of objects - still lives. Recently I have been looking at different ways of adding colour by incorporating collograph and monoprint techniques and have been exploring further the possibilities of deep relief and ‘blind’- printing.