“I was trapped on the tip of Southend pier with an elderly man called Dave, (an eccentric yet morbid local) when I started to drift in to the eccentric world which my current work revolves in. As Dave went into his personal problems in grave detail, (death of budgie, stomach ailments etc.), in desperation I began to stare at the little ringed plovers and imagine their conversations and complaints. I came to the conclusion that they were just like us with their grumbles and gripes, bad habits, love interests and attention seeking behaviour...”

Cathy draws the world as she sees it through a concoction of found objects and wire creating three-dimensional drawings. Her sculptures explore narratives of the everyday varying in scale from small intimate pieces to large public art commissions.