Catherina Petit - Van Hoey

Catherina is a textile and mixed media artist who likes to use a range of stitch and fabric manipulation techniques in a contemporary style, incorporating a multitude of different and often recycled materials.
Most of her work is inspired by poetry, philosophy and insights through more than 25 years of meditation practise, for which she often incorporate text in one form or another and furthermore, through frequent use of symbolic imagery.
Her work ranges from wall-hangings and collages, to applied art forms such as bags, cushions, book covers, etc. She has work in private collections in the UK, France and the Netherlands and one of her collages of the 'Sweet Life' series was bought by a Starbucks coffee store.
She regulary takes part in exhibitions to show new works.

She is happy to undertake commissions for public and private collections and gives tailor-made workshops on request.