Cathy
Brett
Visual Storyteller, Illustrator, Educator, Curator
Hello and welcome
On this site you'll find examples and links to recent and past projects. Click 'Work' for illustration, installations, events, original artworks and collaborative projects. You will find details below of my upcoming illustration and printmaking courses, university lectures and exhibitions. Click on 'Shop' for links to bookings and sales. I'll post news here about some of my projects at Leatherhead Museum, too. Enjoy having a look around and get in touch here if you'd like more info.
LATEST NEWS:
SUMMER WORKSHOPS COMING SOON
SPRING WORKSHOPS @ THE STUDIO
From MARCH 2024
Saturday all-day workshops and Masterclasses with refreshments included. SOLD OUT
SAOS 2024
1st - 23rd JUNE
Once again I will be joined by fellow artists
Tania Busschau and Imogen Hartridge, and delighted that a fourth, botanical artist Gill Cann, will be joining us
at THE STUDIO
We will be open every weekend 11am - 5pm
HERITAGE OPEN DAYS 2024
6th - 15th September 11am - 5pm
2024
This year's events, exhibitions, lectures and workshops
6th APRIL
Grand Reopening Leatherhead Museum
Leatherhead Museum opens for the 2024 season. New exhibitis include 'Young Mr. Turner' and new pictures in the Gallery. Open Thursday - Sunday with some variations. See museum website for changes.
1 - 23 JUNE
Surrey Artists' Open Studios 2024
THE STUDIO in Leatherhead will be open every weekend duriong this event 11am - 5pm
APRIL
Workshps @ The Studio
SPRING workshops: Hardcover Sketch, Kitchen Printmaker and Cyanotype, SOLD OUT
17 MAY
L&DLHS May Lecture
'Young Mr Turner'
I will be delivering the History Society May Lecture - 'Young Mr Turner', exploring the visits of JMW Turner to Surrey when still a teenagers, and how his sketching and painting techniques developed.
7.30pm Leatherhead Institute
2023
Details of this year's events, exhibitions, lectures and workshops
1 APRIL
Grand ReOpening
Leatherhead Museum
Leatherhead Museum reopens after its winter refit with, old favourites, new interactive exhibits, family activities and the exciting 'Jane Austen's Leatherhead' exhibition.
Hampton Cottage
64 Church Street
Leatherhead KT22 8DP
JUNE
Surrey Artist's Open Studios 2023
Once again, Cathy will be joined by fellow artists Tania Busschau and Imogen Hartridge for 3 weekends at THE STUDIO, Leatherhead. Original artwork, drawings, paintings, prints, cards, gifts, textiles and gifts. Works in progress and demonstrations.
The Studio
Highlands Road
KT22 8NQ
21 APRIL
L&DLHS April Lecture
'Jane Austen's Leatherhead'
with Lucy Quinnell and Cathy Brett
Exploring the evidence that Leatherhead was the inspiration for Jane Austen's novel, EMMA.
7.30pm Abraham Dixon Hall
Leatherhead Institute
JULY
The Summer Exhibition
Stuart Stanley Theatre Design Retrospective
Leatherhead Museum launches the first of a series of exhibitions and events to celebrate the heyday of the Thorndike Theatre, Leatherhead's landmark cultural hub, and the people who worked there.
Stuart Stanley, known more recently as an award-winning landscape artist, was Head of Design at the Thorndike Theatre between 1974 and 1986. This small exhibit features his set designs, models, costumes and photographs from the production archives, in collaboration with the archivist at The Leatherhead Theatre.
Leatherhead Museum
Hampton Cottage
64 Church Street
Leatherhead KT22 8DP
Courses, Workshops
& Talks 2022
'Narrative Illustration and Visual Storytelling'
10 week course at Guildford College
April - July 2022 (Tuesday evenings)
'Mary and Agnes' Lecture Tour 2022
Half or full day seminar, or 90 minute talk for BA and MA illustration/graphic design students, featuring the story of the BBC film,'The President's Mother', from the discovery of photographic archive, through the creation of the graphic novella, to the film's premiere. Contact for schedule details
Exibitions 2022
Get Crafty This Christmas
THE STUDIO (no. 15 on the map) will be open for Festive Fun over two craft-filled weekends. Pop in for pasta machine printmaking, drypoint etching demos, rubber stamping, make-your-own cards and decorations, craft kit boxes, FREE have-a-go print activities, original artworks for sale, plus gifts, cards and lots more.
Highlands Road KT22 8NQ
26-27 November & 3-4 December 2022
11am - 4pm
Surrey Artist of the Year 2022
The New Ashgate Gallery
Waggon Yard Farnham GU9 7PS
Group Show of nominees for this year's award.
24 September - 5 November 2022
Heritage Open Days 2022
Jane Austen's Emma: Astounding Invention
Rowhurst at Fire and Iron Gallery
Oxshott Road, Leatherhead KT22 0EN
Explore the historic Grade II* house, Rowhurst, slowly revealing it's astounding past, then open the pages of Jane Austen's masterpiece, Emma, and the real locations that were its inspiration. Artworks, miniatures and merchandise. Fire and Iron Gallery open next door.
9, 10, 14, 15, 16 and 17 September 2022
11am - 5pm
'Surrey Artists' Open Studios'
The Studio
Highlands Road
Leatherhead
Exhibition and workshops with artists Tania Busschau and Imogen Hartridge
11 - 26 June 2022
Denbies Picture Gallery
Denbies Wine Estate
Dorking Surrey
Group show featuring 8 local artists
7 - 13 February 2022
© Cathy Brett 2022