Catherine Goodman: The Colour of a Quiet Mind…

For more than four decades, Catherine Goodman CBE has developed a unique visual language that communicates a powerful visionary response to her lived experience and memory. In this new body of work, presented in the exhibition ‘The Colour of a Quiet Mind…,’ Goodman combines strongly pigmented oil paint, expressive brushwork, oil sticks, drips and washes to create immersive abstract paintings. At the heart of this new body of work lies an exploration of paradox: how painting can hold both quietness and turbulence. Created during a period marked by profound personal loss and illness, as well as a wider backdrop of war and political instability, the paintings reflect Goodman’s search for enduring, memorable images that acknowledge the fragility of the world while remaining open to joy, kindness and renewal.