Catherine Wynne-Paton
I am a multi-disciplinary visual artist based in South Wales. My work draws on connection and exchange between the body, language, land and different forms of knowing and not knowing.
Moving between collaborative and solo practice, I work with a range of different art forms, such as paint, movement, live art and film, depending on the situation.
I explore questions - sometimes my own, sometimes from others - through my own dreamed-up, invented rituals, which invite in curiosity and openness, and respond to the different places and contexts I find myself in.
By doing so, my creative process attracts flow, connection and insight, exchanging and fertilising ideas exploring/ knowing-imagining language, plants and the world around me. I see my painting as a way to access innate knowledge I am not, on the surface, aware of.
I want people I work with to challenge me, champion me and to give me space. For those who experience my work, I want them to feel empowered, to know that they matter by feeling connected to a place, one another, and to have impact.
Lived Experience
I'm a British artist living and working in South Wales in the UK. I am creator of The Lost Library which has appeared at The National Eisteddfod of Wales, Fringe Arts Bath, Deptford X Fringe, The Wrexham Open and MainSpring Arts.
I studied Fine Art at Hereford College of Arts, received the Meadow Arts graduate prize, was the first Print Shed artist in residence, where I had her first solo show in 2015 and in the last three years have received Arts Council of Wales funding.
I sat on the Jury for the Hidden Gems grant scheme, delivered by Herefordshire’s a Great Place that brings together the arts, heritage, rural communities and the creative use of digital technology.
2011-4 Fine Art BA (Hons), Hereford College of Art
2003-5 Art and Design Diploma, Salisbury College
PROFESSIONAL BODIES & MEMBERSHIPS
2023 LUX Moving Image Wales Forum
2014 Axisweb
2014 Founding Director, Framework Herefordshire Artist support organisation
RESIDENCES
2022-3 Artist in residence, Growing Space, Abergavenny
2022-3 Artist in residence, Made in Roath, Cardiff
2019 The Artists Shop, 34 Eign Gate, Hereford
2014 The Print Shed, Madley
GRANTS AND AWARDS
2023-5 Creative Steps funding from the Arts Council of Wales
2024 Axisweb Bursary
2022-3 Create funding from the Arts Council of Wales
2017 a-n one-to-one guidance sessions
2016 PEAK Creative Network Mini Fund
2014 Meadow Arts Graduate Award
2014 The Print Shed Artist in residence
EXHIBITIONS & LIVE ART
2025
Imposure Exhibition, Artlandish, Hereford, March
World Book Night 2025 – Tell The Trees (Listen to the Trees) Exhibition at Bower Ashton Library, UWE Bristol, UK from April – June 2025
2024
Lost Library film shown in twilight film screenings StudioMADE windows and at Theatr Twm o’r Nant, Denbigh.
An eclectic hour of writing and poetry, Abergavenny Writing Festival
2023
Made in Roath Open Exhibition, g39, Cardiff
Framework Herefordshire members & guests Exhibition, The Apple Store Gallery, Hereford
Midwinter Humming, Abergavenny.
2022
Made in Roath Open Exhibition, g39, Cardiff
Hibernators, Group Exhibition, The Art Shop, Abergavenny
West Midlands Open, New Art Gallery, Walsall
Ukraine Fundraising exhibition, Tŷ Tân Art, Hay-on-Wye
2021
Paintings 2015-2021, Hereford Open Exhibition, The Courtyard, Hereford
Various works, Track and Trace, Group exhibition, The Art Shop, Abergavenny
2020
The Lost Library, 16 Videos, various locations, hosted on Vimeo
Word collection paintings, Standing Together, The Bleddfa Centre, Knighton
Wayside Wonders, 85 newspaper paintings displayed in pavement side window, Abergavenny
2019
Word collection paintings, Abergavenny Writing Festival, Abergavenny
Word collection paintings, Next Steps, Apple Store Gallery, Hereford
Word collection paintings, h.Art Open, The Courtyard, Hereford
2018
Word collection paintings, Emergence, The Apple Store Gallery, Hereford
Word collection paintings, The Clydach Gorge Collaboration Group Show, The Hen & Chickens, Abergavenny
The Lost Library, Wrexham Open at Tŷ Pawb and UnDegUn, Wrexham
3 months of photos, drawings and videos, The Every Day Project, Desperate Artwives, Online
2017
Inscribe (installation), T R A N S P A R E N C Y, ASC Unit 3 Projects, London
What Price (Performance), Madley Car Boot Sale, Herefordshire.
The Lost Library, Deptford X Fringe, New Cross Learning, Goldsmiths Library and Lewisham Arthouse, London.
The Lost Library, Fringe Arts Bath, Venue 1, Bath.
2016
New work (paintings and installation), Solo show at The Print Shed, Madley
New work (paintings), Should we have stayed at home?, Cafe Miro, Hereford
The Lost Library, National Eisteddfod of Wales, Abergavenny
#portrait:TACHBROOK collaboration, at Tachbrook market, London
Physical/Textual, Framework Herefordshire Magna Carta Banner Exhibition, Apple Store Gallery, Hereford
2015
New work (paintings), PaperFields, The Globe at Hay, Hay-on-Wye
Participant in Teresa Albor’s Little Museum of Ludlow at Ludlow Library & Museum in the Ludlow Fringe festival
2014
New work (paintings), PaperFields, RK Burt Gallery, London
My cup runneth over (wall installation), Coffee Art Project, The Truman Brewery, London
Stone writing, w0budong Group exhibition - an exhibition of writing without meaning, Piccadilly Place, Manchester
COMMISSIONS
2021 ArtQuest Art Worlds video commission
2019 The Lost Library, SpringBoard, Mainspring Arts, London
2016 Arts Alive Wales (now PEAK) micro commission
WRITING
2020 Catalogue essay What has Black history month got to do with me? for the Bleddfa Centre’s exhibition Standing Together
2014 Dissertation What is found in reproduction?
Helping Artists Keep Going
Axis is an artist-led charity supporting contemporary visual artists with resources, connection, and visibility.