CATHRYN KUHFELD
“I continue to develop my printmaking, experimenting with woodcuts and Japanese woodcuts alongside wood engraving and painting. There is a lot of cross over where each working method feeds the other; ideas moving back & forth between painting and printing. It is a constantly fascinating process to me”.
“Learn to draw with a sincere hand and a faithful eye”. Robert Hooke 1665
CATHRYN KUHFELD
Cathryn Kuhfeld studied painting & printmaking at Canterbury College of Art, followed by Bath Academy of Art and finally three years as a post-graduate at the Royal Academy of Arts. After art school she was awarded an Italian Government Scholarship and went to Florence to paint. Subsequently, an Elizabeth Greenshields Scholarship enabled her to continue working. It was at the RA Schools that she first took up wood engraving with Sarah van Niekerk. There followed a thirty year gap before she resumed engraving and by one of life’s serendipities, she again found herself under Sarah’s tutorage. Shortly after this, Cathryn was reluctantly forced to tackle the modern electronic world when he husband bought her an iPad, but she surprised herself by finding and purchasing a wonderful 1893 Albion press on the internet. She has been printing on it ever since but with renewed respect for both old and new technology!
Her current subject matter is the flora, fauna & wildlife on the doorstep outside her Kent studio, which can become home to the wildlife she works from. Creatures and birds, not infrequently arrive for care, before being released back into the wild; wood mice, hedgehogs, sparrows and collared doves have all been recent residents and models.
Kuhfeld has work in the collections of HRH The Prince of Wales, Sir Brinsley Ford, The Nuffield Foundation and private collections overseas.
Cathryn Kuhfeld in her studio