CATHY DRUMMOND

ALWAYS SOMETHING

11 - 25 October

2025

You’ve passed it many times before - why is it different now, why does it speak to you this time - the light - the sky - perhaps it’s the hour of day. Yet, at another time - a shop, a block of flats encountered for the first time - will call out, in that instant - PAINT ME!

Sometimes, it’s a very fine line between PAINT ME - and “There’s nothing to see here” - whatever it may be, mysterious as that is, it is right that the mystery remains - there is no formula.

The shop, the building, the structure, when it does call out - needs to have no sense of self-awareness. It needs to be comfortable in its own timber, brick or brick clad skin and to have reached its present unpretentious state in all innocence - naively, unaffectedly.

The shopfront paintings in particular, are as much to do with reflections - an abstracted local atmosphere - a fleeting glimpse of geometric abstraction in the High Street.

Layer upon layer, we are taken inside the shop, change focus and we read the surface of the laminated window - shift our attention once again and we see the ambient street and sky reflected.

No wonder one of Cathy Drummond’s favourite films is Alfred Hitchcock’s “Rear Window” - and as it was for Jimmy Stewart and Grace Kelly, if you take the time to look, to really investigate - there’s Always Something.