Catherine Beale

Catherine grew up on the edge of Wiltshire's peaceful Salisbury Plain, with its neolithic sites and chalk "white horses". She studied art and music throughout school and, during student holidays she worked at a gallery within Avebury stone circle. After a degree she travelled in Africa, working for a craft cooperative in Botswana. After building up an early business career in London she moved to Asia in 1996 and began to paint full time.

Catherine has held three highly successful solo exhibitions in Singapore and Malaysia and exhibited at numerous events. Now living near Bath, she was most recently included in the Bath Society of Artists' 2007 summer exhibition. Commissions include British High Commission (Singapore), British Club (Singapore), Asia-Europe Foundation, HSBC, Banc National de Paris, Caltex, Lafarge, Reuters as well as private individuals worldwide. Catherine is proud to have supported several Asian charities with her sales as well as donating designs and painting a mural for a Malaysian Elephant Sanctuary.

Catherine gravitates towards large, bright oils on canvas imbued with strong, positive sunlight. But her work also spans pencil portraits, pastels, pen and ink, bold watercolours and crisp acrylics. Her subjects are varied and include tropical botanical themes, a strong interest in heritage architecture - she is known in asia for her studies of Chinese and Indian shophouses and colonial bungalows. More thoughtful moments produce atmospheric scenes such as footprints on a deserted beach or a monk gazing from the ruins of Angkor Wat, Cambodia.