Hello, I’m Catherine, a Multidisciplinary artist from southeast London. I would say I’m drawn more to painting portraits but I think the thing that stands out about my work is the brush strokes and the vibrant colours that I choose to use. Painting has always been my passion, my way to escape the world to feel present in the moment and I try to channel my emotions and energy into a piece of art.

The idea for this series comes from my own kind of addiction I guess. My musings and what I’ve noticed whilst travelling on public transport and just in the world. The pieces speak for themselves and don’t initially feel like anything in particular. Portraits of my loved ones that are shot from an angle of them looking down. I wanted to paint what your phone would see. So the idea comes from my own frustrations of our addiction to our phones and to our screens. The way that we are sucked in to these voids and lose all life from our eyes. It’s not just affecting adults. It’s also affecting children.

I specifically painted each portrait in highly saturated colours, full of so much vibrancy, to contrast the literal void of a person’s face when they are looking at their phone.

It has been said that the blue light that they install in casinos, to keep you hooked on the slot machines is the same technology in our phone screens. We are literally being programmed and manipulated to become addicted to these devices. Why?
Do we ever think about the way?
The best way to make anyone do anything you want is to make them think they have a choice.
We are at war and we don’t even realise it.