From Cathie to Catherine

Original watercolor painting, "Clandestine Walk" through Autumn Woods at Lake Johnson in Raleigh North Carolina, is one of a kind vintage painting from the 1970s. Two kindred souls have a clandestine meeting for a deep discussion of their current lives, identities, and futures. Deep discussion leads to soul searching and major lifestyle changes. The beauty of the day is hardly acknowledged while they are deep in thought. Oranges, browns, reds, greens are all along the nature walk, as well as oak trees, dogwoods. Grasses line the path.

"You do not need this painting in your house. I'm taking it with me," my mother said in when she saw this painting. Being an artist too, I guess she knew it was painted from my soul.... and a portrait of a reality I was not ready or at liberty to discuss...at that time. Many years later, after our mother was gone and our father had died, my younger sister found and saved the painting to give it back to me.

The artist Cathie Donleycott, a young women in the mid 1970s grew from that experience, and many that followed from it, to become Catherine Ludwig Donleycott. Catherine Ludwig Donleycott

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