CATHERINE ARNOLD

landscapes
I always complete my landscapes on site. While painting, I am constantly striving to describe the changes which occur around me, a process which forces me to work quickly, in an almost circular manner.

I enjoy the physical interaction that painting in the landscape brings about: working on a canvas that is being stirred by the wind, watching animals which, after a while, no longer perceive me as an intruder. I seek to explore not so much the shape of individual forms, as the physical impact - the sense of tension or release - the land evokes in the viewer. I'm trying to catch a pattern of light in a landscape which, in a moment, will collapse revealing a new pattern; a new impression of weight or balance.

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The Sections of the Slumbering Spine, 60” x 60”, Oil on Canvas, Available.Detail: The Sections of the Slumbering Spine, 60” x 60”, Oil on Canvas, Available.Tides that Conquer the Dividing Line, 40" x 40”, Oil on Canvas, Available.Detail: Tides that Conquer the Dividing Line, 40" x 40”, Oil on Canvas, Available.All My Toil of Breeding Fire, 40” x 60”, Oil on Canvas, Available.Detail: All My Toil of Breeding Fire, 40” x 60”, Oil on Canvas, Available.Pressed to the Pulse of the Grass, 29” x 25”, Oil on Canvas, SOLDAnd The Round Ocean and the Living Air, 38” x 34”, Oil on Canvas, Available.