
16/09/2025
Catherine Anholt, working from her sea-facing studio in Devon, has cultivated a lifelong practice rooted in observation and imagination. A graduate of the Royal College of Art (1985), she draws on a personal visual diary kept since childhood to create dreamlike paintings that echo the lyrical spirit of Rousseau and Matisse while also resonating with the textures and perspectives of Sogdian and early Islamic murals. Her work reflects the influence of her extensive travels and the visual cultures she has encountered, resulting in a rich, cross-cultural painterly language.
Alongside her renowned career as an illustrator of over 200 children’s books created with her husband Laurence, Anholt’s paintings form an intimate record of her life. Themes of motherhood, family, and nature are central, imbued with both tenderness and universality.
Her inclusion in Culture Kaleidoscope situates her within a wider dialogue of contemporary artists who draw deeply from lived experience and cultural memory to shape a visual language that is both personal and transcendent.
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