Catherine MacDiarmid is an award winning artist whose portraits reach beneath the obvious, capturing the real essence of a person.

Her work ranges from small to large scale oil, and watercolour paintings, charcoal drawings and small pencil sketches. She has been twice shortlisted for Sky Arts Portrait Artist of the Year and the prestigious BP Portrait Show, and has won awards in the Artists and Illustrators Artist of the Year and the Royal Society of Birmingham Artists, amongst many other accolades.

Catherine has completed private and public portrait commissions as well as having work in personal collections worldwide. [More . . . ]