Long Way Home

In anticipation of each season, my mind flashes back to places I have been before, especially the beaches of my beloved Breezy Point, Long Island. Descended from a long-line of New York City designers and painters, I share their love of nature, the water, and landscape painting.

My mother, a painter and fashion designer, created clothes for me like those she saw in Saks Fifth Avenue windows. On our many long drives along the Bronx and Hutchinson River Parkway into The City and visits to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, I drew inspiration for my drawings and paintings.

I express my subconscious artistic vision primarily through abstract impressionistic seascapes, and landscapes. Beginning to apply paint to paper or canvas, the painting itself inspires me. Since 1972, the public has responded to my artistic vision by purchasing over 350 original painting.

After graduating from NC State University in 1988 as the first mother and two daughters to ever do so, I worked as a technical writer and designer, visually painting pictures with everything I touched. Now, after a life-long search for a sense of place,I have settled in Clayton, North Carolina where I garden, walk, takes photos, and paint. Sharing the comfort I receive from the natural beauty in the world, as well as the joy I feel when interacting with my paintings, has been my life's goal.

Accomplishments Include:
- Solo Art Show at ARTmosphere Community Art Center - November 2020 to January 2021
- Juried into Clayton Visual Arts (CVA) Art Faire 2018
- Juried into five (5) NC State Fairs
- Juried into Carolina Craftsmen Show
- Five Society of Technical Communications Writing, Editing, and Design awards, including: Distinguished Award for Technical Publications, 2002. Hill-Rom Nurse Communications Systems (NCM) Quick Reference Guide
- Redesigned Northern Telecom (Nortel) Product Information Room—came in $13,000 under budget, 1992
- Created GoDaddy website: https://catherinedesigns.com/