Katalina J. Szombath is a graduate of the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts and an award winning artist and photographer who was born in Budapest, Hungary and brought up and educated in Russia, Poland and Czechia.
Since 1990 she has been living the UK .
In the mid-1990s Katalina developed close links with the St Petersburg artistic community in Russia and she  is a member of the Russian Federation of Artists. 
Katalina's artwork includes traditional and experimental forms of painting, prints, photography, enamelling, stained-glass and video art. Conceptual inspirations range from traditional Russian iconic art to contemporary music. The artist's abstract canvases created in the 1990s portrayed the elements: Fire, Water, Sun, Rain, Storm etc and explored emotions  through colour and light. Katalina s later figurative paintings focused o­n representation and portraiture and while more formal they carried  expressiveness of colour. Katalina s present paintings reflect her love of  nature, music and culture.
Film and photography have influenced Katalina  s artwork: she holds an  MA in Film Studies and has conducted years of research in the field of European Experimental Film.
Since 1990 - when she first worked with an  international crew of young film makers in Vienna,- Katalina has been creating short films internationally.
Photography was o­ne of Katalina's  early inspirations as several members of her family were keen  photographers. Later o­n photography became also a point of reference for Katalina s
 artwork: her photographs feature musical performances, landcapes and  portraits.

Main Exhibitions

1990 -  The Window , exhibition of paintings , The Institute of Hungarian Culture, Warsaw, Poland.
1990 - Solo exhibition of paintings, jazz happening project The Polish Cultural Institute, Budapest, Hungary.
1991 - Solo exhibition of paintings sponsored by TNN US TV Network,  Budapest, Hungary.
1992 - Explosion, solo exhibition of paintings, Kentish Town Gallery, London, UK.
1996 - Solo exhibition of screen prints, Redland Library Galleries, Clifton, Bristol, UK.
1999 - Solo exhibition of prints and paintings, The Reggio Gallery,  New York, NY, USA.
2000 - The British National Print Exhibition, Spike Island Studios, Bristol, UK. 2003 - Exhibition of photographs and prints at the Association of Hungarian Photographers.
2004 - Screening of  Storm  digital exhibition of artwork.
2008 - exhibition of prints and paintings at St Georges Brandon Hill in Bristol, UK.

Design and Theatre

1992 - Design for The South Bank Show, London, UK.
1994 - Dancers, design commissioned by Women s Aid, London, UK.
1995 - Blue Beards Castle- installation & theatre show, in  collaboration with The Soho Group, London.
1996 - Installation during rock concert in collaboration with Great  Divide, Bristol, UK.

Film and Video Art

1990 - Rosa , short film sponsored by The Austrian Ministry of Culture, Vienna, Austria.
1999 - Pantomime , documentary video, Bristol, UK c.40 min.
2001 - Girls  , video, c. 12 min, Bristol , UK.
2004 -  Storm , a digital retrospective show of images of artwork, first screened at the Watershed Media Centre in Bristol, UK.
2004 -  Madarszabadito , Cultural and Artistic Consultant, Inforg Studio, Budapest, Hungary and Lenfilm, St Petersburg, Russia.
2007 -  Top Sectret  - short video film, a cityscape of  Saint-Petersburg in Russia, arranged to music by Sade Adu and Stuart Matthewman   Haunt Me .
2007 -  El Capitalismo  - montage of digital images based o­n the  artists photographs of Saint-Petersburg, Russia, arranged to music by the  Gotan Project  El Capitalismo Forreneo .
2008 - The Vibraphonist , montage of photographs from A. Chizhik's  concert in the Small Hall of the St Petersburg Philharmonic, in June 2004, Russia, music by A. Chizhik.
2008 -  'The Cherry Garden', a visual  'fairy-tale'/love story, a montage of photographs of the Clifton area of Bristol, UK, arranged to music by Santana, 'Samba Pa Ti'.
2008- 'The Orchestra', montage of photographs of The Cube Orchestra in Bristol, UK.