Catherine Davison

Drawing and painting directly from source underpins my practice. I am attracted to looking at complex spaces where different forms interrelate in landscape, focusing on the parks and hills near my home in South Edinburgh. I enjoy the challenge of deconstructing what is happening in front of me and through reconstruction make visual sense of the changing relationships. Abbreviation is central to my image making; mapping the land with a vocabulary of idiosyncratic lines and patchworks of coloured shapes as I search for ways to transform my perceptions of space into new forms of wondrous reality.

Catharine Davison (b. 1970 Kilkeel, Co Down, Northern Ireland) studied BA (Hons) Graphic Design (Illustration) at Liverpool John Moores University (1990–93) and an MA Illustration at Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College (1997–01). Solo exhibitions include: Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh (2013/ 15/ 17/ 19/ 2022). Recent prizes include: Visual Artist and Craft Maker Award from The City of Edinburgh Council, in partnership with Creative Scotland, (2022) and W. Gordon Smith Award, (2018) and winner of the Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize, (2014). She lives and works in Edinburgh.