CATHERINE BATES Catherine Young Bates is a Canadian artist based in Montreal and Georgeville, Quebec. Her highly coloured contemporary landscapes are on single canvases or in sectional formats. Large scale drawings and paintingsare done both on site and in the studio, often focusing on the mythic flight of Icarus over various parts of the world. Born and raised in Windsor, Ontario into an artistic family, she graduated from Victoria College, University of Toronto, in art and archaeology, and did graduate work at McGill University. She studied painting at The Baltimore Museum of Art, printmaking at The Maryland Institute and spent a year in England focusing on drawing. She taught in the Fine Arts Department of Dawson College until the spring of 2002, taking intermittent self-paid leaves in order to paint. She wrote as art critic for The Montreal Star Canadian Art and other journals. She co-authored Drawing: a link to Literacy and is the author of Counterpane: Poems and Drawings. She is represented in international public, corporate and private collections and has an extensive bibliography. Her work and more detailed biography may be seen at Galerie St. Laurent Hill (Ottawa) and Michael Gibson Gallery (London, ON). |
