Tag: Catherine Goodman

Catherine Goodman is known for expressive paintings that move between observation, memory and imagination. Working across portraiture, landscape, interiors and still life, Goodman creates richly layered compositions in which colour, gesture and atmosphere carry as much weight as the subjects themselves. Her paintings often begin with close looking before evolving through an intuitive process, allowing figures and places to shift between the familiar and the psychological.

Drawing on literature, cinema, art history and lived experience, Goodman’s practice explores the emotional charge of people, objects and environments. Her paintings are built through repeated acts of looking and reworking, creating surfaces alive with movement, uncertainty and accumulated time. Balancing intimacy with a powerful physical presence, her work reveals painting as both a way of seeing the world and a means of navigating memory, perception and inner experience.

Alongside her own practice, Goodman is the founding Artistic Director of the Royal Drawing School, reflecting a longstanding commitment to drawing as a fundamental way of thinking, observing and understanding.