Cathryn Kuhfeld

Cathryn Kuhfeld is a painter & printmaker who completed her postgraduate studies at The Royal Academy Schools. She has exhibited regularly for over forty years, mainly in London. She has work in the collections of The Nuffield Foundation, Sir Brinsley Ford and HRH The Prince of Wales. She is an elected member of The Society of Wood Engravers.

Approach to teaching
Learning something new, with all the expectation & discovery that involves, is always an exciting prospect. I like to think that teaching should be an inspiring process and having guided a class to experiment and explore the medium, they all leave with a sense of achievement.

What inspires your work?
I work directly from life, my subject matter being the birds & beasts, flora & fauna from the garden and countryside surrounding my studio in Kent. I regularly acquire all sorts of wildlife in need of TLC, which gives me ample opportunity for drawing etc, before returning them to the wild. Recent “models” have included a baby hedgehog, a West Country tumbler & a jackdaw.