Catharni Stern
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Catharni Stern is an English
England
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 sculptor and art teacher.

Education

Stern was educated at Chelmsford
Chelmsford
Chelmsford is the county town of Essex, England and the principal settlement of the borough of Chelmsford. It is located in the London commuter belt, approximately northeast of Charing Cross, London, and approximately the same distance from the once provincial Roman capital at Colchester...

 County High School then studied at the Mid-Essex
Essex
Essex is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in the East region of England, and one of the home counties. It is located to the northeast of Greater London. It borders with Cambridgeshire and Suffolk to the north, Hertfordshire to the west, Kent to the South and London to the south west...

 School of Art, Chelmsford. Her graduate studies were at the Royal Academy
Royal Academy
The Royal Academy of Arts is an art institution based in Burlington House on Piccadilly, London. The Royal Academy of Arts has a unique position in being an independent, privately funded institution led by eminent artists and architects whose purpose is to promote the creation, enjoyment and...

 Schools, where she won an award for sculpture.

Work

Stern worked at Poole
Poole
Poole is a large coastal town and seaport in the county of Dorset, on the south coast of England. The town is east of Dorchester, and Bournemouth adjoins Poole to the east. The Borough of Poole was made a unitary authority in 1997, gaining administrative independence from Dorset County Council...

 Potteries during the 1950s.

She taught at St Martin's School of Art, London
London
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, and Southend School of Art.

She has been active in producing sculpture, paintings, and other graphic media. Her style has been modernist, but also realist.

She still produces art pieces, mostly for private sale.

Exhibitions

She has exhibited in London, East Anglia
East Anglia
East Anglia is a traditional name for a region of eastern England, named after an ancient Anglo-Saxon kingdom, the Kingdom of the East Angles. The Angles took their name from their homeland Angeln, in northern Germany. East Anglia initially consisted of Norfolk and Suffolk, but upon the marriage of...

 and the Netherlands
Netherlands
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. Her last major exhibition was at in 1994, but a retrospective exhibition was conducted at Chelmsford Museum in 2006.

Public art

Stern's bronze sculpture St Francis
Francis of Assisi
Saint Francis of Assisi was an Italian Catholic friar and preacher. He founded the men's Franciscan Order, the women’s Order of St. Clare, and the lay Third Order of Saint Francis. St...

is in Chelmsford, and a terracotta St Francis is in St Giles' Church, Langford
Langford, Essex
Langford is a village on the Dengie peninsula close to Maldon in the English county of Essex. It is part of the Wickham Bishops and Woodham ward of the Maldon district....

; a bronze relief Seven Men in the Waistcoat of Edward Bright
Edward Bright
Edward Bright was a grocer in Maldon, Essex, England — known as the "fat man of Maldon" — who was reputed at the time of his death in 1750 to be the "fattest man in England"...

(the Fat Man of Maldon), is in the Kings Head Centre, Maldon; she designed the logo (based on the Bright's coat motif) for a local walking club, the Maldon and Dengie Hundred Group http://www.maldondengieramblers.org.uk/index.html.
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