Catherine McClure

I am an artist who works in a range of media. My work includes acrylic, oil and watercolour paintings, botanical plaster-castings, and decorative pebble mosaics.

I enjoy exploring and experimenting across a broad range of figurative and abstract styles. I am influenced and inspired by the forms and colours of the natural world, and these influences feature in many of my works, figurative or abstract.

My work is created in a small studio in my home in Prestwick.

I have always undertaken creative practice alongside my professional career as a nurse but began to create on a more regular basis in 2019. My first major project during this period was a pebble mosaic installation, ‘My Universe’, consisting of nineteen individual mosaics installed in my home driveway. This was also the first public facing work I had created, and the community conversation and interaction the work continues to stimulate has been a motivating factor in my ongoing artistic exploration.

Following the completion of this project, I started painting regularly and continue to enjoy this form of artistic expression. Initially, my paintings were predominantly abstract works in acrylic medium, but I have now broadened my practice to include some figurative work and use a variety of media (oil, watercolour, inks) alongside acrylics. I am influenced and inspired by the forms and colours of the natural world, and these influences feature in many of my paintings, figurative or abstract. This interest in the natural world has also led me to explore and produce botanical plaster cast art.