Former Age photographer Cathryn Tremain dies aged 66

Beck stated he ended up working at The Age quickly after and acquired to know Tremain effectively.

He stated Tremain hardly ever spoke about her inventive course of and the way she approached taking pictures, however simply had an innate creativity that shone by in her work.

“She was just instinctively artistic,” he stated. “I don’t think she thought about how she was going to make something, she just knew instinctively how to take beautiful photographs.

“She never really talked about it … She never really discussed how she did it, why she did it, how great she was. She just did it.”

Tremain was an earthy, approachable but robust character, whom he appeared as much as. “I saw her as a bit of a photographic hero … She was someone who was instinctive and did such beautiful work,” Beck stated.

Age senior author Wendy Tuohy labored extensively with Tremain and fondly recalled her former colleague’s abilities.

“When you scored her on your job you knew you were likely to get a free ride to the front end of the paper, care of her gifted perspective and intuitive talent for composition,” Tuohy stated.

“She did have a seemingly ‘tough’ exterior, and didn’t waste words, but her pictorial art revealed her to be finely tuned to the small things that connect us. She seemed impervious to sentiment, but her images were tender.

“Looking at her pictures, you wondered how she’d found these striking details in a scene where you may not have noticed anything out of the ordinary.

“She made nothing of her skill and creativity, and her subjects seemed to understand she met them at eye level. She captured magic we’d otherwise have missed.”

Jim Pavlidis, a long-time artist with The Age, stated Tremain’s seemingly robust exterior belied a really delicate one who had an amazing eye for capturing fleeting moments.

“She appeared tough to outsiders – no bullshit – but she was an incredibly sensitive person. She took really beautiful, considered pictures,” Pavlidis stated.

“Creatively she was incredible; she had a beautiful, really sensitive touch.”

Fiona Lawrence, who additionally labored as an artist at The Age within the Nineteen Eighties and ’90s, stated Tremain’s pictures was a lot admired by her colleagues.

“What I remember about Cathy the most is, just apart from her very genuine and outgoing personality, was that … everyone spoke about her work with such reverence,” Lawrence stated.

“People would just sit with the weekend papers, and it would always be unanimous that her work contained something special …

“She had an ability to engage with everyone on a very personal level.”

Tremain is survived by her mom Val, brothers Peter and Paul, and nieces and nephews.

She was farewelled by household and mates on Thursday in a service on the Glenmorus Memorial Gardens Chapel close to Albury.

Paul Tremain addressed the gang of about 70 individuals gathered for the service, The Border Mail reported.

“Cathryn learned from an early age to be strong, resilient and fiercely independent,” he stated.