Exhibitions and Awards

Current Exhibitions

Catherine exhibits annually with the Lake Artist Society, Green Door Artists and the South Lakes Arts Collective.

Selected Past Exhibitions

2024
New Light Art Tour – Launched in Merseyside in Autumn 2023, and toured to a further three Northern galleries (Cumbria, Northumberland & Yorkshire), plus a week in Southbank London, throughout 2024.
Society of Women Artists 162nd Annual Exhibition – Mall Galleries
Contemporary British Portrait Painters – The 2024 Exhibition – The Department Store, Brixton
Jacksons Art Prize 2024 – The Blue Room longlisted for the Jackson’s Art Prize 2024
Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolour 212th Exhibition – Mall Galleries, London
Moments – a collaboration between Catherine MacDiarmid and Jean Hilton – Brewery Arts, Kendal

2023

Brewery Open – Brewery Arts, Kendal
Lake Artists Annual Exhibition – Grasmere Village Hall
Society of Women Artists – Mall Galleries, London
Jackson’s Painting Prize 2023 – Bankside Gallery (Watercolour Materials Award)
Inspiring Creativity – Exhibition of Tutors work at the Brewery Arts Centre, Kendal
Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolour, Mall Galleries, London
New Beginnings, Green Door, Brewery Arts Centre, Kendal

2022

Points of View – Upfront Arts Venue, Penrith, Cumbria
Society of Women Artists 161st Exhibition – Online Exhibition
Winner/Award Winning Artists 2020-2022, Mall Galleries, London
Lake Artists Society Summer Exhibition – Grasmere Village Hall, Grasmere, Cumbria
Contemporary British Portrait Painters The Department Store, Brixton
Portrait Artist of the Year, The Exhibition, A celebration of 8 years of Sky Arts most popular TV Show and Art Competition
Compton Verney Art Gallery and Park, Warwickshire.
Portrait Artist of the Year, Compton Verney Art Gallery and Park.
Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolour (Cass Art Prize), Mall Galleries.

2021
Through The Locking Glass, Rheged, Penrith
RSW, Royal Scottish Society of painters in watercolour.
New Light Tour 2021/22, Scarborough Art Gallery, The Biscuit Factory, Newcastle, Tullie House, Carlisle and Bankside Gallery, London.
SWA Annual Exhibition, Mall Galleries.
Lakes Artists Annual Exhibition, Rheged.

2020
RBSA prize exhibition (Alec Morison Watercolour Prize), RBSA Gallery, Birmingham
Sunday Times Watercolour Competition, Willis Museum and Sainsbury Gallery, Basingstoke and Mall Galleries, London
SWA (The Society of Women Artists) Annual Exhibition 2020
Castlegate Prize, Castlegate House Gallery, Cockermouth, Cumbria
The CBPP (Contemporary British Portrait Painters) Perceptions, The Space at Cass Art, London
Upfront Open, Upfront Gallery, Penrith
Significant Forms, The Dock Museum, Barrow-in-Furness
The Pastel Society Annual Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London

2019
Personal, Solo Exhibition, Brewery Arts Centre, Kendal, Cumbria
Jacksons Painting Prize, Hampstead Affordable Art Fair, short-listed
Sky Arts Portrait Artist of the Year 2019 Exhibition, Clarendon Mayfair Gallery and Whitewall Galleries Tour
Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolour annual exhibition, Mall Galleries
Royal Birmingham Society of Artists (RBSA) annual prize exhibition
Upfront Open (honourable mention), Penrith

2018
The Artists Magazine Open, Patchings Art Centre
Royal Birmingham Society of Artists (RBSA) annual prize exhibition
Without Boundaries,The Dock Museum, Barrow-in-Furness
Upfront Open (3rd prize), Penrith

2017
RBSA annual Portrait Prize exhibition
Patching Art Prize Exhibition
Artists & Illustrators Artist of the Year 2017 (Pegasus Art Prize), Mall Galleries

2016
RBSA annual prize exhibition (Second Prize)
RSWP annual exhibition, Mall Galleries
Cumbrian Artist of the Year, Reghed, Penrith
Up Front Open (prize winner), Penrith

2014
The Artists Eye, Brewhouse, Kendal
Open Up North, Kendal

2004-5
FACE2: Touring Exhibition, Warehouse Gallery, Kendal, Wrexham Arts Centre, and The Roxy Art House, Edinburgh

2004
Preface, Sugar Store Gallery, Brewery Arts Centre, Kendal

2003
Not The Turner Prize, The Mall Galleries, London

2002
Brewery Open (first prize), Brewery Arts Centre, Kendal
BP Portrait Exhibition, National Portrait Gallery, Aberdeen City Art Gallery

2001
BP Portrait Exhibition, National Portrait Gallery, Millennium Galleries, Sheffield