About Cathy Lewis

Cathy Lewis has been taking photographs creatively since she was a child, when her father gave her a Praktica camera. She studied political and social aspects of Photograhy with her Modern Languages degree at the University of East Anglia. In March 2003 she won a prize in the Newcomers competition of Kidlington Camera Club and one of her photos was chosen for the BBC Oxford photo of the week in December 2008 (Winter Light in the Oxford gallery). Cathy's photograph of a partially frozen pond in the Botanic gardens featured on the BBC Oxford web site in the winter of 2009 (Frozen pond in the Oxford Gallery). She has had exhibitions of photographs at the Maison Française d’Oxford library and has twice taken part in Oxford's Artweeks, alongside artists Martin Beek and Jacqueline Pumphrey at St. Matthew's Church. Cathy was commissioned to take a portrait photograph of the author Zsuzsanna Clark, which appeared in the Hungarian National newspaper Nepszabadsag on the 22nd January 2010. Also in 2010 her photograph of the garden of Merton College, Oxford appeared in the College calendar. She has taken part in Oxford City Twinning projects, supported by Oxford City Council, to promote the love of photography in Oxford and Grenoble primary schools. She uses a Fujifilm camera and aims to get the image right in camera, using minimal digital enhancement.