Catherine Chinatree
"Last Of The Summer Wine"
Acrylic On Canvas
2023
Everything, everywhere, and all at once. Through movement to stillness, the norm to the supernatural, fear to ecstasy, I am fascinated by the dual nature of everything. I am a Margate based multidisciplinary artist, with a strong focus on large scale paintings, both indoors and outside. The work can be described as both figurative and socially surreal. I also work with sound and moving image in a collage type of way, connecting footage/sound at random.
Most of my inspiration comes from the events of everyday life, of symbolism and rituals and the people I meet. Often complex layers of history, social anthropology and Cultural displacement become part of the work, as I investigate the notion of the constructed self and human behaviour. Being Of Welsh, Caribbean and Irish descent, I am deeply rooted in hybrid culture, and the idea of a shared reality. Not only between us as humans, but also everything that makes up our natural/supernatural world, and how we balance between the two
