Rocks and Spume - oil
Seaside - oil
Gorse and Blue - oil
My inspiration comes from my visits to Penwith in Cornwall, a magical land encircled by seas. It is littered with the detritus of long ago; from Bronze Age cromlechs and Celtic crosses to the ruined engine houses of its abandoned tin mines.
The moors are a pagan world of standing stones and sweeps of bracken, crowned by granite cairns. Above the cliffs, a prehistoric landscape of small, misshapen fields and cattle pastures have held fast since the Iron Age in a web of granite hedgebanks.
My colours, intensified by the dazzling Atlantic light, are the gorse and the heather, sea and sky, the strident greens and yellows and orange-gold of lichens on granite and a multitude of greys.
My imagery comes from the stones. I am excited whenever I come across a menhir or quoit, stone circle, barrow or carn. Most recently I have visited a fogou, in the courtyard house settlement of Carn Euny. The fogou, constructed around 500 BC, is invisible from above ground. A low stone lined passage leads to a remarkable circular corbelled room, more than two metres high and four metres across.
My paintings are recreations of these memories.
Carn and Gorse
Cornwall
Quiet Dawn
Carn Euny
Fogou and Granite
Secret Garden
Cliff-Top Carn
Fogou
Sea Breeze
Granite and Blue
Granite and Blue
Lichen on Granite
Peat Fields
Sea Carn
Secret Entrance
The Sun was Filtering through the Mist
White Lichen
Sunset
Bracken and Spume
Mooring
Cairn Entrance
Entrance
2019
Robert Fogell Gallery, Stamford, Lincs
Brisons Veor Artists Retreat Residency, Cape Cornwall
Tarpey Gallery, Castle Donington, Derbyshire
Bircham Gallery, Holt, Norfolk
New Walk Museum & Art Gallery, 'LSA Annual Exhibition 2019', Leicester
2018
Number Four Gallery, St Abbs, Berwickshire
Light Box Gallery, 'Showcase Exhibition', LCB Depot, Leicester
New Walk Museum & Art Gallery, 'LSA Annual Exhibition 2018', Leicester
New Walk Museum & Art Gallery, 'Open 29', Leicester
- Collagraph print, 'Earth Mysteries' chosen for Encyclopaedia of Printmaking, Quarto Publishing
2017
New Walk Museum & Art Gallery, 'LSA Annual Exhibition 2017', Leicester
2016
Affordable Art Fair with Cank Street Gallery, Bristol
Rob Fogell '10th Aniversary Exhibition' Stamford, Lincs
Small Print International, a touring exhibition curated by Leicester Print Workshop
New Walk Museum & Art Gallery 'Open 27' Leicester – Shortlisted for the Atttenborough Prize
Stour Gallery 'Making a Mark' Shipston-on-Stour, Warwickshire
Bircham Gallery, Holt, Norfolk
New Walk Museum & Art Gallery, 'LSA Annual Exhibition 2019', Leicester
New Walk Museum & Art Gallery, 'Simply Drawing' Leicester
2015
The Penwith Gallery 'Penwith Society Associates Winter Exhibition' St Ives, Cornwall
The Penwith Gallery 'Penwith Society Associates Summer Exhibition' St Ives, Cornwall
Stour Gallery 'Summer Show', Shipston-on-Stour, Warwickshire
Robert Fogell Gallery 'Summer Landscape Show' Stamford, Lincs
New Walk Museum & Art Gallery, 'LSA Annual Exhibition 2015' Leicester
2014
Stour Gallery 'Cornish Exhibition' Shipston on Stour, Warwickshire
The Penwith Gallery 'Penwith Society Associates Winter Exhibition' St Ives, Cornwall
The Penwith Gallery 'Penwith Society Associates Summer Exhibition' St Ives, Cornwall
Robert Fogell Gallery, Stamford, Lincolnshire
Hunter's Interiors, Stamford, Lincolnshire
Made in Leicester - selected
White Street Gallery, Kibworth, Leics
Rutland Open Studios
Wistow Gallery, 'A Splash of Red' Wistow, Leics
New Walk Museum & Art Gallery, 'LSA Annual Exhibition 2014' Leicester
New Walk Museum & Art Gallery, 'Open 25' Leicester
Stamford Arts Centre, 'Attic Artists' Exhibition of the Four Artists Who Have a Studio in SAC', Stamford, Lincolnshire
Studio Eleven Gallery, 'Edited Highlights', collaborative exhibition with Leicester Print Workshop, Hull
Wistow Gallery, mixed ongoing exhibition, Wistow Rural Centre, Leicestershire
Stour Gallery, 'Autumn Mixed Show', Shipston on Stour (October - November)
Sock Gallery, 'Re-Invented Landscapes', Solo Catherine Headley exhibition, Loughborough, (October - November)
New Walk Museum & Art Gallery, 'LSA Annual Exhibition 2013', Leicester
Tarpey Gallery, 'Midlands Print', Printmakers from Leicester Print Workshop, Castle Donington, Derbyshire
Stour Gallery, 'Catherine Headley, Janette Kerr, Breon O'Casey' Shipston-on-Stour, Warwickshire
Brisons Veor Residency at Cape Cornwall
New Walk Museum & Art Gallery, 'LSA Annual Exhibition 2012,' Leicester
Collagraph print Summer Solstice printed on front cover of new book of poems,Towards the Waiting Sun, by Cambridge don, Glen Cavaliero
Brisons Veor Retreat, Cape Cornwall - April residency
‘Small Print: Big Impression’ - Leicester Print Workshop touring exhibition in the UK
Embrace Arts 'Passion2Print' Leicester Print Workshop Exhibition, Leicester
Woodbine Gallery, Uppingham, Rutland
Stoneman Gallery, Penzance, Cornwall
Tyler Gallery, Mousehole, Cornwall
Wet Paint Gallery, Cirencester
Bircham Gallery, Holt, Norfolk
New Walk Museum & Art Gallery 'LSA Annual Exhibition 2011' Leicester
Stoneman Gallery, 'Christmas Show', Penzance
‘Passion2Print’ - Leicester Print Workshop Exhibition
Bircham Gallery 'Summer Show' Holt, Norfolk
Robert Fogell Gallery, Stamford
Bircham Gallery, 'Spring Print Show' Holt, Norfolk
New Walk Museum & Art Gallery 'LSA Annual Exhibition 2010' Leicester
New Walk Museum & Art Gallery, 'Leicester City Open' Leicester
Brisons Veor, Cape Cornwall - Residency 2009 (also 2001)
Passion2Print, Leicester Print Workshop touring exhibition (also 2008, 2007)
Belgrave Gallery, 'December Show'
Stoneman Gallery 'Winter Show', Chapel Street, Penzance
Bircham Gallery 'Summer Exhibition' Holt, Norfolk
Woodbine Contemporary Art, Uppingham
Affordable Art Fair, Amsterdam, Battersea, Edinburgh Art Fair
New Walk Museum & Art Gallery 'City Gallery Open' Leicester (also in 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 1995)
New Walk Museum & Art Gallery, 'LSA Annual Exhibition 2009' Leicester
Mall Galleries 'Originals 08 Print Show' London
Affordable Art Fair, with Woodbine Gallery, Battersea
Bircham Gallery, 'New Artists Exhibition' Holt, Norfolk
Great Atlantic Gallery, St Just, Cornwall (regularly from 2001)
International 'Small Print/Big Impression' a touring exhibition curated by Leicester Print Workshop
Belgrave Gallery, 'December Show' St Ives, Cornwall
New Walk Museum & Art Gallery, 'LSA Annual Exhibition 2008' Leicester