Her first solo exhibition, Imagine a Landscape, is a collection of line drawings showing familiar city scenes and landscape paintings.

The drawings appear to be a strange cross between Mr Ben's Festive Road and the city from the opening credits of Rainbow.

They appear flat and yet bounce from the page in 360 degrees. They are surreal and yet easily recognisable to anyone who lives or has lived in Bristol.

Perot's Bridge and the Arnolfini are shown in the foreground

"I love to put in silly details to see if people will notice," said Catherine.

As the eye searches one of her pictures it lands by chance on a scarecrow, incongruous in the middle of rows of houses and yet with closer inspection it is in fact carefully placed between houses and allotments.

This is typical of Catherine's line drawings.

"Whenever I'm going to start a picture I walk around the area with a notebook and draw from life to get details down and I talk to the people who live there to get a feel for the place," she said.

Details like the farmyard in "Mapper Werburghs" at first appears childlike, but this is an artist who cleverly fools you into believing the picture is simple when in fact it is full of intricate details, painstakingly worked out for maximum effect.

(If you get a chance to go along to the exhibition see if you can find the bath tub "hidden" in the drawing).

Perspective

The landscapes, which give the exhibition its name, began with a commission two years ago for a piece for a Bristol art project called workplace.

The work called "Mapper Broadstreet" is part of the display at the St George's exhibition.

"The way the picture is drawn leads you to think you can walk from one building to another just like a map, but I am always amused when people say they have actually tried to do that," she said.

Brandon Hill and the Wills Memorial building appear in negative

Catherine's love of cityscapes and architecture stems from her time as an art student in Canterbury.

"I had been studying the Italian Renaissance and fell in love with the way they used perspective - the huge saints and tiny buildings.

"As I walked around (Canterbury) I wanted to interpret the architecture using perspective to get all the details I could see in."

After moving to Bristol and getting involved in a number of city art projects, Catherine feels it's time to jump into the deep end.

"I have to find out if I can make it on my own - to see if people like my work."

Bristol's history is of course, rich and chequered, providing plenty of food for thought for artists like Catherine, who love to see the mish- mash of life and the way changing fortunes have affected the city's public buildings and private homes.

"Bristol is perfect - when you look over Bedminster you can see straight lines of houses which change colour in the light, then your eye moves and the shapes and light completely change."

All Catherine's pieces are for sale. There are also a number of limited edition prints of some of the drawings.

The Imagine a Landscape exhibition, at St George's concert hall off Park Street, is open from January 15th until April 8th.