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Catherine Heard
  • Work
    • 2025 -2026
      • Animals & Machines
      • Embodied Fairytales
      • Becoming Other
      • Reimagined Myth
      • Masking
    • 2023-2024
      • Tree Larking
      • Installation
      • Escape Painting
      • Hedgebank
      • Sculpture
      • Time and Decay
      • Washed Up
    • 2022-2023
      • Playscape
      • Weather
      • Through a child's lens
      • 3D Painting
      • Biblical
      • Photography
        • Somerset
        • Away
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  • Work
    • 2025 -2026
      • Animals & Machines
      • Embodied Fairytales
      • Becoming Other
      • Reimagined Myth
      • Masking
    • 2023-2024
      • Tree Larking
      • Installation
      • Escape Painting
      • Hedgebank
      • Sculpture
      • Time and Decay
      • Washed Up
    • 2022-2023
      • Playscape
      • Weather
      • Through a child's lens
      • 3D Painting
      • Biblical
      • Photography
        • Somerset
        • Away
  • About
    • About
    • Contact
    • Working Thoughts
  • Instagram
These abstract paintings come from a place of not knowing.  I follow the work and the materials rather than a fixed plan - often to music.   Most of these paintings have began as figurative or representational paintings that I’m ready to abandon and through a process of unravelling and reworking, shift into something else entirely.  I paint in, paint out, and paint back in again, guided by intuition rather than intention.  At times, abstraction becomes a form of escape, a self-soothing response to the intensity of making narrative or conceptual work.
Catherine Heard, abstract Painting
Untitled, emulsion, charcoal, highway spray, oil, acrylic and cotton thread, on paper laid down on canvas, 30 x 40cm, November 2025
Catherine Heard Painting Sculpture
Disassembled , emulsion, plastic, wire, wood, thread and rose petals on wall lining paper,  350 x 300cm 2025
Catherine Heard Pink and Blue Abstract
Untitled, collage: emulsion, gloss, charcoal, oil pastel, spray paint on paper laid down on canvas,  40x30 cm, 2025
Catherine Heard Pink and Green Abstract
Anchor, emulsion, charcoal, oil pastel, spray paint and acrylic on paper laid down on canvas,  50 x 40 cm, 2025
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Untitled,  charcoal, spray paint, gloss, oil pastel, metal, plastic, acrylic and thread on wall lining paper laid down on canvas. 
Catherine Heard, After Chillida
Untitled, emulsion, acrylic, black gloss, charcoal, oil pastel, spray paint, plastic and unidentifiable waste on canvas, 30 x 40 cm, 2025
Catherine Heard, Orange and Blue Abstract
Untitled, emulsion, acrylic, charcoal, oil pastel, spray paint, plastic thread and grass on canvas, 60 x 80 cm, 2025
Catherine Heard, Abstract Paintings
Untitled, emulsion, acrylic, charcoal, oil pastel, spray paint, plastic, tape and unidentifiable waste on canvas, 60 x 70 cm, 2025
Catherine Heard, Red Abstract
Untitled, emulsion, gloss, charcoal, oil pastel, spray paint and blue ink on card  60 x 80 cm, 2025
Catherine Heard, Red Abstract
Untitled, emulsion, gloss, charcoal, oil pastel, crayon, spray paint and oil pastel on card  60 x 80 cm, 2025
Catherine Heard Sculptural Painted Collage
Untitled, collage: emulsion, gloss, wax pastels, charcoal, oil pastel, spray paint, metal and card on paper   60x10 cm, 2025
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Untitled, emulsion, gloss, charcoal, oil and wax pastel and spray paint on canvas,  60 x 80 cm, 2024
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Untitled, collage: emulsion, gloss, acrylic, spray paint, plastic, grass and dust on canvas,  60 x 80 cm, 2024
Catherine Heard Floating Points Abstract Painting
Untitled, emulsion, gloss, acrylic and road line marker spray on canvas,  60 x 80 cm, 2024
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Untitled, emulsion, gloss, acrylic and spray paint on canvas,  40 x 60 cm, 2024
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Untitled, emulsion, gloss, oil pastel, acrylic and spray paint on canvas,  40 x 60 cm, 2024
Picture
Untitled, emulsion, gloss, acrylic and spray paint on canvas,  40 x 60 cm, 2024
Catherine Heard, Abstract Painting
Fragments, emulsion, gloss, acrylic and spray paint on canvas,  30 x 40 cm, 2024
Catherine Heard, Winter Landscape Painting
October, acrylic, spray paint and emulsion paint on canvas, 40 x 60cm, 2024
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November, emulsion, gloss, acrylic and spray paint on canvas,  40 x 60 cm, 2024
Catherine Heard Blue Abstract painting
Untitled, emulsion, gloss, acrylic and spray paint on canvas,  40 x 60 cm, 2024
Catherine Heard Black Spider Painted Collage
Spider,  spray paint, emulsion, acrylic, oil pastel, plastic tape, plastic netting and dust on canvas, 40 x 60cm, 2024
Catherine Heard Abstract Hedge Painting
Hedgerow,  spray paint, emulsion, acrylic, oil pastel, plastic netting, grass and dust on card, 60 x 80 cm, 2024
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Hedgerow,  spray paint, emulsion, acrylic, oil pastel, plastic netting, grass, thread, wool and dust on card, 60 x 80 cm, 2024
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Displaced, ink, emulsion and acrylic on canvas, 40 x 60cm, 2024
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