Catharni Stern

Catharni Stern (b. 1925, Southsea, Hampshire) is an English sculptor and art teacher.

Education

Stern was educated at Chelmsford County High School then studied at the Mid-Essex School of Art, Chelmsford. Her graduate studies were at the Royal Academy Schools, where she won an award for sculpture.

Work

Stern worked at Poole Potteries during the 1950s.

She taught at St Martin's School of Art, London, and Southend School of Art.

She has been active in producing sculpture, paintings, and other graphic media. Her style has been modernist, but also realist.

She still produces art pieces, mostly for private sale.

Exhibitions

She has exhibited in London, East Anglia and the Netherlands. Her last major exhibition was at in 1994, but a retrospective exhibition was conducted at Chelmsford Museum in 2006 ["Catharni Stern exhibition at Chelmsford Museum" [http://www.chelmsford.gov.uk/index.cfm?articleid=12040] accessed 16 February 2007] .

Public art

Stern's bronze sculpture "St Francis" is in Chelmsford, and a terracotta St Francis is in St Giles' Church, Langford [St Giles' Church [http://www.stgileslangford.org.uk/apse.php] accessed 16 February 2007] ; a bronze relief "Seven Men in the Waistcoat of Edward Bright" [image of Stern's bronze relief [http://myspace-507.vo.llnwd.net/00621/70/58/621198507_m.jpg] accessed 16 February 2007] (the Fat Man of Maldon), is in the Kings Head Centre, Maldon; she designed the logo (based on the Bright's coat motif) for a local walking club, the Maldon and Dengie Hundred Group [http://www.maldondengieramblers.org.uk/index.html] .

Auction

Stern's work is regularly sold at auction.

ocial

Stern has lived in Maldon, Essex since the 1970s.

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