Two Kats anda Cow

Two Kats and a Cow began in 2001 as a shared studio inside a Victorian arch on Brighton seafront, taken on by painters Katty McMurray and Kathryn Matthews together with artist John Marshall, whose names and nickname gave the gallery its own. Five years of working and exhibiting together led to the studio becoming a full gallery in 2006, still run from the same single seafront arch and reached directly from the beach. Alongside the founders' own paintings, the gallery now shows ceramics, prints, sculpture and jewellery from other UK makers. The Independent has featured it among the seafront's notable attractions, and it continues to trade as one gallery rather than a group, distinguished by its unusual arch setting and the fact that all three founders remain actively involved two decades on.