About Cath
Cath Waters is an award winning Scottish landscape digital artist and photographer living on the Isle of Skye.
The inspiration for Cath's landscape work comes from the special places she finds on her travels around Scotland as well as the beauty surrounding her home on the Isle of Skye.
She loves the wide open spaces, vast heavy skies and low light of the Scottish West Coast and the Hebrides and tries to capture the essence of these perfect places.
There is a sense of simplicity, space and solitude in her work, which often features the unique calming colours of the Scottish land and sea - soft greys, emerald greens, muted blues and purples.
Cath hasn't always been artist and spent many years as a cell biologist working in cancer research. When her twin boys were born she took what was intended to be a short break from the lab.
Over the next year, Cath started making and selling botanical and landscape artwork as prints and cards, travelling around fairs and events in Central Scotland.
Cath's artwork proved to be popular from the outset and she decided to take a gamble on turning it into a business.
Several years ago Cath and her family fulfilled a lifelong dream and moved to the Isle of Skye.
Cath's workshop and outlet shop is now in the village of Dunvegan, Isle of Skye, with the most amazing views of the loch. Cath and her workshop team make most of her product ranges in Skye including prints, mugs, coasters, tiles and jewellery.
In 2024 Cath opened a beautiful Gallery and Gift shop right in the heart of Skye's capital, Portree.
Cath creates her artworks from her beautiful home studio near Carbost in North West Skye.
What is Digital Collage?
Cath's process starts off on location where she takes digital photographs of the landscape.
She also takes photographs of 'textures' which can be painted or mixed media pieces or natural finds like surfaces such as rocks and bark. Some of Cath's textures are photos of peeling paint, scratched metal, rust, fabric, old paper...all sorts of unusual things.
Back in the studio she uses a digital graphics tablet to blend the landscape photography with these 'textures', building up sections to add colour, depth and form.
Each finished piece might have 20 or so layers of digital collage in addition to the original landscape photograph.