These galleries comprise a selection of original works made since 1999. Click on the dropdown menus to browse recent series and older work. Please contact me at catherine@cjhigham.com for information on works for sale and prices.
Exhibitions & Projects
Please click on the dropdown menus to browse Exhibitions & Projects.
Limited Edition Prints
Limited to an edition of 100no. each, these giclée images are printed on 230gsm heavy matt archival-quality paper, using ‘Blue Wool Scale 6’ inks, lightfast for approx. 85 years. Mounted with 5cm border using white textured card, signed, titled and editioned. Prices and print sizes (excluding mount) shown under each image below. Post and packaging at cost price (around £4.00 Royal Mail 1st class for ‘small parcel’). Please email me at catherine@cjhigham.com to place an order.
About
My work is concerned with the materials and processes of landscape; both natural and fabricated. Land form, surface and space; water; vegetation; light; weather; built structures; habitats (for humans/wildlife); time & change are central elements of my practice as an artist and as a landscape architect.
I make intuitive artwork which explores simultaneously the microscopic and the infinite; the spontaneous and deliberate; the transient and eternal. I map land, water and skies that are real, imagined, theoretical or unknown. Light and time are both subject and medium in my current work with cyanotype and solargraphy.
My parallel interest in weaving began as a means of connecting directly with the materials of landscape and place; and to investigate this ancient craft as a novel method of ‘drawing’.
Methods of working involve precise actions (application of marks, tone, poured paint, woven stitches) and serendipity – allowing the materials to follow their own request. Leaving empty, unoccupied space on the canvas, paper or loom offers an opportunity for contemplation; it is the viewers’ task to fill in the gaps, to complete the work.
I aspire to make raw, simple work in an age of visual stimulation and information overload.
For my brief C.V. click here.