Biography
Born in Belfast and currently resident there, Lisa Catherwood was educated in Lisburn and has travelled and painted in Scotland, Australia and France, as well as throughout the islands of Ireland (sea shores and sea life have long been a fascination). In 2006 she had a residency at Cill Rialaig, the artists retreat in County Kerry.
In 1980 she had glandular fever and was susequently diagnosed with ME/CFS. From which she still suffers.
She has worked in various media, always looking “to capture spirit and light”, and has exhibited and sold work in pen and ink, watercolours, painted glass and mirrors, pastels, acrylics and oils. Lisa has also worked with photography and digital art media and animation. In recent years she has returned to work in oils, joined with enamel on copper and the use of gold and other metal foils and mixed media.
