Catherine Goodman (b. London 1961) is an artist based in London and Somerset. Goodman trained at London's Camberwell School of Arts & Crafts, and the Royal Academy Schools, at which she won the Royal Academy Gold Medal in 1987. Since leaving the Royal Academy, Goodman has worked at her studios in London and India and has had numerous solo exhibitions, including Portraits from Life at the National Portrait Gallery in 2014. She won First Prize in the BP Portrait Award in 2002.
Read MoreHer visual language runs across genres, acknowledging the influence of literature, film, music, drawing from art and life, enriching her work. Goodman has developed her own subtle mythology, the motifs of which carry through her drawings and paintings, whether of real or imagined landscapes and characters, or impressions conjured from memory.
She has a longstanding interest in artists' development and education, as well as the importance of drawing to artistic practice. In 2000, Goodman co-founded the Royal Drawing School with HRH The Prince of Wales in Shoreditch, London to address the increasing absence of observational drawing programmes in art education.
Text courtesy Hauser & Wirth.
