A WOMAN from Kendal has seen her painting as one of the winners of an art competition.

Catherine McDiarmid is the Watercolour Award Winner of The Jackson’s Painting Prize with the painting entitled 'Personal Space: Dancer'.

The competition, run by Jackson’s Art, began in 2016 and this year there were 11,225 entries with more international entries than in previous years. 

The artist was awarded £500 in Jackson’s art materials.

Born in Kendal in 1972, after gaining a degree in Visual Arts from De Montfort University in 1994 Catherine has lived and worked in Kendal.

She began exhibiting her art in 1998 and has work in collections in Turkey, France, the United States and the United Kingdom. 

Catherine has won various awards, including the Cass Art Prize in the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolour 2022.

Catherine belongs to several art collectives including the Lake Artists Society and the Contemporary British Portrait Painters (CBPP), and was a founder member of Green Door, a collective of artists based in and around the South Lakes.