Deansgate – Just the Art
Just the Art – Deansgate, an original painting by artist Cathy Read
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Heading Home Past Central Library – Just the Art
Heading Home Past Central Library ©2018 – Cathy Read – 42 x 59 cm – Watercolour and Acrylic ink More about Heading Home Past Central Library
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Six of the Best Paintings of 2022 – Part 2
In the final hours of 2022, here are six of my favourite paintings created in my studio this year. One for each month from July. July Setting up the Pitch Earlier in the year I was cultivating an interest in combining architecture with scenes of street life. Buskers have always intrigued me. I don’t paint
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Castlefield Canal Artist Talk
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Deansgate Artist’s Talk
The Deansgate painting is sold. Other Manchester paintings and prints are available. Browse Available Manchester Art
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Mysterious Painting – Deep Dark Lock.
Cathy Read’s Deep Dark Lock is a mysterious painting. This intriguing lock leads off the River Irwell but where’s the canal?
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Everyday Drama in an Urban Painting
Speeding through the City Street. An ambulance on an emergency run dominates this urban painting. The bright yellow and blue vehicle hurtles past, on the opposite carriageway, heading to a shout. Its yellow paintwork reflecting on the surrounding walls. Although it doesn’t seem to hurry at all, does it? Frozen in time, it’s ever on
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Introducing Deep Dark Lock
For Saturday Night Live Art Shows Fall Fest I’ve sharing Deep Dark Lock Painting, in autumnal colours, it’s deep, it’s dark and moody. https://youtu.be/7gqLyd3HrM4 Deep Dark Lock ©2021 – Cathy Read -Watercolour and acrylic ink – 76x56cm Deep Dark Lock was one of the new paintings destined for Manchester Art Fair in November 2021 and
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Contemporary Manchester Paintings Toast Rack Towers
This week, for Saturday Night Live Art Shows I’m looking at Toast Rack Towers one of my contemporary Manchester paintings of the Hollings building part of the old university campus. Here’s the video, complete with gaffs. Finally I’ll leave you with a still of the completed painting. You can find more contemporary Manchester paintings in
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