A Life in Lines and Layers Cathleen Mann began her days in Newcastle upon Tyne, born to parents who lived through the brush and pigment. Her father, Harrington Mann, and her mother, Florence Sabine Pasley, were both portraitists, providing a childhood shaped by the quiet work of the studio. She learned to paint within her father's London studio, receiving early lessons that would later lead her to the Slade School of Fine Art and even…