Catherine Williams MA

Catherine Williams studied Fine Art at the University of the West of England, Graduating in 1997 when she also received the Rebecca Smith Award for Printmaking. She has just completed her Master’s Degree in Multi-Disciplinary Printmaking studying at the UWE. The inspiration for Catherine’s work comes from the textural qualities of landscape, particularly the rugged Cornish coastline and the effect that the sea has on the landscape. Colour and light also play an important part in achieving a sense of place. The prints are usually made by using one of the two following processes - both of these processes lend themselves well to the subject matter. Etching, which involves deeply etching the plates to create very textural surfaces, combined with the subtle tones of aquatint. Carborundum, which is an intaglio process like etching, except instead of eating into the surface of the plate, the plate is built upon using a mixture of acrylic paste and Carborundum grit thus making a very hard surface, the print has a very strong embossed quality about it.