Although born in Liverpool, Kathleen Caddick spent her childhood in Buckinghamshire where the beech woods and far reaching views across the Chiltern Hills must have subconsciously implanted her love of trees. She trained at High Wycombe College of Art and graduated with honours in painting. She worked as a freelance designer and art teacher while her son was growing up and then ran a graphics design studio, during which time she was also an examiner for the City and Guilds London. She started painting full time in 1968, exhibiting mainly in London, and produced her first etchings in 1976 - her natural style of concise line and delicate hand colouring particularly lending itself to her chosen medium. The quality of her prints has rightly won her an international following and her work has been widely exhibited and collected in this country as well as in Germany, USA, Canada, the Far East and Australia. She has worked on commissions for the National Trust and the Woodland Trust. Kathleen's vision of landscape is the subject matter of her work expressing feelings of space, peace and tranquility through her use of muted colours.