Fragile Bodies, Paintings by Catherine Heard

Fragile Bodies

These paintings explore the psychological landscape of human experience through fragmented figures and expressive mark-making, using current images from the news - blurred with the images from a children's Bible and Dore's engravings for Dante's Inferno.

abstract painting of a group of people, feeding of the 5000 abstracted figuration painting by Catherine Heard

Feeding of the 5000, emulsion, acrylic, oil pastel, gloss, road marker and paper on canvas, 60 x 40cm, March 2026

A painting by Catherine Heard, where figuration meets abstraction, based on an etching by Dore, Titan and the Giants, Dante's Inferno

Titan and the Giants, charcoal, household emulsion, household gloss and road marker on card, 78 x 59cm March 2026

Painting by UK artist Catherine Heard, abstract with bird figures, coloured and grey forms. The painting is made with stitched paper panels laid on canvas

Closed Eye, charcoal, emulsion, spray paint, acrylic on sewn paper panels laid down on canvas, 40 x 30cm, March 2026

Painting by Catherine Heard, predominantly black, reminiscent of Basquiat. The shape looks like a skeletal scull, with teeth.

Crush Point, gloss, household emulsion, charcoal and thread on sewn paper panels laid down on canvas, 40 x 30cm, March 2026