Catherine Imhof Cardinal
Catherine Imhof-Cardinal is a Swiss painter, born in France, who has lived near Aberdeen, for over 40 years. Although she trained as a sculptor at the École des Beaux Arts in Aix-en-Provence she decided to dedicate herself to painting.
Her strengths lie in her treatment and combination of colours; over the years she has moved away from the explicitly figurative to a unique style that combines traces of figurative but with the emphasis on colour and composition. Her approach to composition is without preconception; each work gradually emerges from a series of lines thrown onto the sheet, the subject and composition suggesting themselves through the work process.