New York-based Scottish artist Catriona Herd paints landscapes from plein air sketches done all over the United States, Scotland and mainland Europe. Herd, who also paints the figure, is currently exhibiting at The Line Gallery, 238 High Street, Linlithgow, West Lothian, Scotland, and at Clover's Fine Art Gallery, 338 Atlantic Avenue, Downtown Brooklyn, New York.

In recent years she has held solo exhibitions at the Broome Street Gallery in Manhattan, Clover's Fine Art in Brooklyn and the Dundas Street Gallery in Edinburgh.

In 2010, Herd undertook sketching trips to California, West Virginia and to the Scottish island of Iona. In 2009, Herd won a scholarship to paint at the Anderson Ranch Arts Centre in Aspen, Colorado and made sketching trips to Portugal, France and Scotland.

Herd's painting "Copper Tree, Evora, Portugal" won a 2009 Jean Gates Award in New York.

Glasgow-born Herd graduated from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art in Dundee, Scotland in the 1980s after five years of study including a postgraduate year and selection to paint at the Hospitalfield House master class.

Herd's teachers at Dundee included veteran Scottish painters James Morrison, Alberto Morocco and Jack Knox, who was a major influence. Following stints in Edinburgh, Hong Kong and New Zealand, Herd settled in New York in 2003.