Catherine MacDiarmid

Expert tutor

Catherine MacDiarmid has 30 years’ experience teaching a range of art classes and applying her knowledge as a practicing artist to her role as a tutor. She has an enthusiastic approach to teaching, and loves to challenge her learners.

Catherine exhibits widely, including exhibiting in the BP Portrait in 2001/2, New Light Art Tour 2021/22 and 2023/24n(of outstanding /Northern based Artists) and regularly at the Mall Galleries. She has won many awards for her art, most recently being the Watercolour Materials Award in the Jacksons Painting Prize 2023. She is a member of The Lakes Artist's Society, the Contemporary British Portrait Painters and appeared in Sky Portrait Artist of the Year 2014, 2018 and reaching the semi-finals in 2019. As well as completing private portrait commissions her work is collected internationally and she works from her home-studio in Kendal.