CATHERINE HYDE FINE ART
She is, if you will, a visual poet weaving images, symbols and archetypes into paintings that resonate in the subconscious and linger there like half-remembered dreams or the dark fairy stories with which she has such affiliation
Pip Palmer, Galleries Magazine
CATHERINE HYDE
Award-winning artist Catherine Hyde trained in Fine Art Painting at The Central School of Art in London. She is renowned for her mythopoetic paintings and lyrical books. Rendered with poetic sensitivity, her atmospheric work draws on mythology and folklore to explore the nuanced intersections between the natural world and the internal landscape.
Originating from Greek, mythopoetic means “myth-making” or creating narratives. It is an approach to art where the artist invents their own symbols, creatures, and stories to explore identity, memory, and existential themes, rather than retelling established ancient myths. The artist is not just the producer of an image, but a participant within it, acting as a shaman or storyteller, often using their personal mythology to heal or find stability.
Technique and materials:
Catherine works with acrylic on canvas using the repeated layering of paint to represent the ‘adding and subtracting’ of memory and meaning. She further builds the surface with metal leaf, mica flakes, coins, and seeds to connect the work to themes of earth, decay, and renewal.
Themes and Imagery:
Her work frequently explores thresholds, the liminal spaces between waking and dreaming, dusk and dawn, life and death. In her paintings of flora and fauna, she uses archetypal imagery such as the Hare, Stag, Fish, the Green Man, and the Trickster to create narratives and suggest stories.
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If you are a gallery or shop interested in Catherine Hyde’s work, please email us at chydeart@gmail.com for details.
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MIXED AND SOLO SHOWS
Ainscough Contemporary London
Beaux Arts Bath
Bishop Philpotts Truro
Charleston Farmhouse Sussex
Crooked House Gallery Suffolk
Easton Rooms Gallery Rye
Elementum Gallery, Sherborne
Falmouth Art Gallery
Fannie and Fox Penryn
Foss Fine Art London
Fowey River Gallery
Illustration Cupboard Gallery London
Iona House Gallery Woodstock
John Noott Gallery, Broadway
Lemon Street Gallery Truro
Lion House Gallery Suffolk
Lighthouse Gallery, Penzance
Mall Galleries London
New Leaf Gallery Monmouth
Rostra and Rooksmoor Bath
Rye Art Gallery
Singing Soul Gallery Cranbrook
Towner Gallery Eastbourne
True North Gallery Massachusetts
Twenty Twenty Gallery, Much Wenlock
Wet Paint Gallery Cirencester
Yew Tree Gallery, Morvah, Cornwall
BIO
b.1960 Dartford, Kent
1978/9: Foundation studies, Medway College of Design, Kent
1979/82: BA (Hons) Fine Art Painting, Central School of Art, London
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