Catherine Hamilton is an established Mornington Peninsula-based artist and has been painting for over 30 years. Working with a range of media including acrylic, oils, gouache, charcoal and natural pigments, Catherine has an extensive knowledge of both colour and the different media she uses. Her paintings are often built up with several layers of glazed colour to create both depth and texture.
Catherine's recent recognition includes winning The Kenneth Jack Drawing Award in 2019 for her figurative work “Lost in New York”, and being selected as an Artist in Residence at Police Point, Point Nepean, arranged by Mornington Peninsula Arts and Culture in collaboration with the Mornington Regional Galley.
"As a result of this residency, I am working on a collection to be exhibited later in the year and created a video of my working process “An Artist’s Story: From Sketchbook to Canvas”. My work is featured by galleries in Melbourne and also overseas.
Much of my work is produced from recollections – recollections of experiences, emotional responses and visual memory. My walks along the coast are the stimulus for my work. Photography, observational sketches and memory all become the reference points that contribute to the creation of my paintings which are ultimately my connection and my response to this space and all it embraces. I watch the changing light and its impact on the shapes and landscape around me, the dramatic skies looking across from the water’s edge and the embankments and steep overhang of the very edge of this land. Because of natural erosion caused by the impact of weather on this terrain, it changes constantly, and this is part of the transitioning elements shown in my collection of paintings."