Cat Northfield

Cat is a visual artist based in Mid-Wales whose work explores imagination, transformation, and the thread between inner and outer worlds. She works primarily in oil paint and charcoal, with a growing focus on portraiture and the figure.

 

Cat won joint-third prize in the 2024 Gwenllian Ashley Art Prize for her painting Evolution Revolution, and was awarded Student of the Year at Coleg Ceredigion, where she completed her Foundation Diploma with distinction. She went on to study classical oil portraiture under acclaimed artist Louis Smith, gaining a Gold Award in July 2025. 

 

Drawn to contrast and flights of fancy, Cat is currently developing a new body of work rooted in imagination and realised in oils.