Catherine Jennifer creates uplifting, playful art on themes of connection, joy, awe and wonder.

Catherine studied Fine Art (Painting) at the University of Cape Town, South Africa, graduating with a first class pass for painting in 1999. In 2000 she moved to the UK, where she has worked ever since, as an artist and freelance graphic designer.

Catherine works in watercolour and mixed media, in a loose style, with a focus on mark-making. Her aim is to create accomplished, thoughtful yet playful art that speaks to the soul and acts as a mirror for people to see inside themselves.

She is a Top Teacher on Skillshare: her classes focus on creativity, drawing, painting and surface pattern design.

She teaches watercolour courses in Oxford, and runs an Art Club in Kennington, Oxford. She is passionate about helping people to overcome their barriers and to discover the joy of creativity.

Catherine is a mother of four boys, aged 15, 13, and 8-year-old twins. When not working or being a mum, you will find her running through the woods, or smashing a hockey ball on the pitch with the Abingdon Hockey club.

Exhibitions and Achievements

2025 Langford Arts Festival (June)

2025 Sussex Art Fair (May)

2025 Published 13th Skillshare Class, which got a Staff Pick (March)

2024 Kennington Xmas Fair (Dec)

2024 Kennington Writers’ and Artists’ Fair (Nov)

2024 Published 12th Skillshare Class, which got a Staff Pick (Nov)

2024 Published 11th Skillshare Class, which got a Staff Pick (Oct)

2024 Bath Art Fair (Sept)

2024 Oxfordshire Artweeks - Exhibited with KFL Spice of Life Group in Summertown (May)

2024 OVADA Big 20 Exhibition (May)

2023 Started cover teaching at Sunningwell School of Art, Oxfordshire

2023 Started teaching In-Person Workshops and Courses in Oxford

2023 Launched Season 1 of Art Club in Kennington, Oxford (Sept). Art Club is now entering Season 6.

2023 Published Skillshare Class, “Watercolor Techniques for Beginners: Paint a Cactus” which won a grand prize in the Top Teacher Challenge. (Oct)

2022 Published Skillshare Class, “Watercolor Without Fear: Painting for Pattern Design”, which got a Staff Pick and now has 2,534 students. Became a Top Teacher on Skillshare (Aug)

2022 Published Skillshare Class, “Principles of Watercolor: Learn to Paint a Torch-Ginger Flower”, which won a prize in the Spring Publishing Challenge. (March)

2020 Published my first Skillshare Class, “Drawing Without Fear”

2011 ‘Into the Woods’ – Solo Exhibition, The North Wall Arts Centre, Oxford

2010 ‘Paint’ – Beldam Gallery, Brunel University

2010 ‘Within 10 Miles’ – Vale & Downland Museum, Wantage

2010 ‘Open’ Exhibition - Oxford Art Society, Saïd Business School, Oxford

2008 ‘Gift’ – The Ideas Exchange (TIE), OVADA Gallery, Oxford

2007 ‘Residue’, OVADA Gallery, Oxford

2006 Solo exhibition, Nuffield Orthopoedic Centre, Oxford

2006 Oxfordshire Artweeks

1999 Michaelis School of Fine Art Graduate Show, Cape Town

Residencies

2007 OVADA Gallery, Oxford, 3 April to 11 May. Selected from open submission to be artist in residence along with two other artists. Residency culminated in a three-person exhibition at OVADA, entitled “Residue”.

Competitions, Awards & Qualifications

2016 ‘Kitchen Crazy’ design won third place in Moyo Magazine competition

2007 Winner of Adult section, The Blooming Great Art Competition, Abingdon Arts Festival

1998 Arts and Culture Trust Scholarship Award

1999 BA Fine Art (Painting), University of Cape Town, with First Class Passes for Painting IV and Theory & Practice of Art IV.

1994 Matriculation Certificate (South African School Leaver Certificate) with “A” for Art.