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CATRIONA HENDERSON DARROCH
Catriona is a watercolour artist living in Cowal, Argyll.
She is an artist member of Paisley Arts Institute, a member of Cowal Open Studios and a member of Artists in Motion, a pan European organisation, based in France.
She works in pure watercolour, mostly wet on wet with dry brush to finish.
Catriona is self taught, she has no formal art education but has attended many courses at Glasgow School of Art and life classes. She has been observing, drawing and painting since she was a child on the Isle of Arran and has a lifelong love and passion for Watercolour painting.
Catriona believes that “Watercolours seem to have a life of their own, an ethereal, mysterious medium to fascinate the artist and viewer alike” She likes the idea, that like life itself, watercolours can be unpredictable.
The West Coast of Scotland is her inspiration, land and lochs, seas and skies, birds and plants, from Cowal to the Highlands and Islands. She loves islands and many of her paintings are taken from various and many visits and stays on Scotland’s West Coast. She’s either on an island or looking at them from a distance. From the Isle of Arran to St Kilda and everywhere in between. All hold a mystery that captures the heart.
Catriona would like to convey a love of the land and a respect and consideration for the generations who have lived and loved here before us.
She has held many solo and joint exhibitions where her work has found its way to New Zealand, Germany, France, South Africa, Barcelona and many different regions of the UK from Cornwall to Lewis.
She has had her work accepted at The Mall Gallery London and RSW Edinburgh.
Currently exhibiting at; Castle Gallery, Rothesay; Stables Gallery, Inveraray; Seagull Gallery, Gourock.













