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Finding beauty in the built environment – Arts of Work exhibition in Robertson

58-60 Hoddle Street, Robertson NSW 2577

Event Date: 11 Feb 2025 - 28 Oct 2023, 10:00 am - 4:00 pm

Artwork inspired by the beauty of work sites and the built environment is the subject of Catriona Anderson’s exhibition called Arts of Work currently showing at CTC Robertson.

Robertson based artist, Catriona Anderson started her career as an artist about 10 years ago.  Soon after retiring, her neighbours gave her a birthday present of painting lessons at the Bowral District Art Society.  Since then she has been continuing to attend weekly classes there.

“When I first started painting, I imagined I’d be travelling all over the countryside like the Leyland brothers, with my easel, sketchbook and water colours, painting landscapes” says Catriona “ I soon realised this was not going to happen for me.  Many artists capture the beauty of nature and the Australian landscape. I tend towards the built environment and its relationship with the natural environment. Now I paint most days for both the challenge of something new and the pleasure of creating.”

Catriona is drawn to scenes where beauty is found in the colour and shapes of the built environment beside nature – the sweep of a road by the ocean, construction workers’ bright clothing near a bed of flowers or against a misty grey sky, the power lines along a highway mimicking the weeds, the disintegration of a building slowly decaying back to its original state. 

Acrylic paints are what she mostly uses, for the vibrancy of colour and the ability to layer and the fact that acrylics ares much more forgiving than watercolour or pen and ink.  “ I do however use various pastels and collage in my art. When I start out with those mediums, I often end up with something playful, which also has its place” says Catriona.

 The Arts of Work exhibition continues to Saturday 28 October and is open 10am-4pm Thursday and Friday, 9am-1pm on Saturdays at CTC Robertson 58-60 Hoddle Street Robertson. All works are for sale.

Contacts

58-60 Hoddle Street, Robertson NSW 2577

W. robertsonctc.org.au/exhibitions.html

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