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Cathy is an abstract painter and printmaker. Her work has been accepted into many juried exhibitions in California. She was the featured artist of the annual National Abstract Exhibit at Artisan’s Gallery in Mill Valley, CA and has participated in several solo and group exhibitions. Cathy is a member of an abstract critique and support group called Collective 9—they show their work in galleries around the Bay Area. Cathy is currently exhibiting her work at ACCI Gallery in Berkeley, CA. I love color—from brash reds and brazen blues to soft greens and sensual yellows, color sets the mood, summons one to the surface. Especially in works on paper, layers of color create a sense of translucence and light. Lines, fluid and irregular, meander around the surface—connecting some shapes, setting others apart. Regardless of how much I work on a piece, in the end, it must convey a feeling of spontaneity; it must assume its own quirky identity. Bits of recognizable imagery—skies, fields, buildings, bridges—find their way into my work. The trick is to render them in a new way; use the familiar as a stepping stone or metaphor for a deeper, more intimate reality. I paint on a variety of surfaces; paper, wood, canvas—with a variety of tools; brushes, palate knives, my hands. I experiment with mediums, stencils, collage. I’m all over the color wheel. I’m not concerned with branding my art with a recognizable style. Yet when I step back from the work and assess my progress, I seem to have created a large, somewhat eccentric family—a body of work that is distinctly and uniquely my own.