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	"Art is more a matter of reflecting on experience than merely recording it", says Jack Shadbolt. As a landscape artist for many years, I agree with his thought. My paintings have evolved and changed over the years, but they seem to reflect my long experience of living within the mighty forces of nature. I grew up as a mining camp daughter surrounded by water, plants, rock, sky, and the climates contained therein. The feelings of grandeur and awe contributed to my mystical connection with nature, and later, with the magical process of creating images. For many city-living people today, the feelings of being overwhelmed by the 'power of nature' have, to a large extent
	been forgotten. A result of this loss of connection to the land - to all life - is that we tend to isolate ourselves in a man-controlled and manipulated landscape. Hence our propensity to mutilate, poison, and destroy life with which we have no immediate contact. As an artist, I choose to try to convey a more positive and sublime view. I can do little more than stand back and marvel at the beauty and inexplicability of the natural world and my audacity in trying to recreate it!!
	"I have been painting most of my life, beginning in High School. Upon graduation, I attended the Banff School of Fine Arts. In the following 25 years that I resided in Trail, British Columbia, I attended University and Business College, painted at weekend workshops, and read everything available about art at the Trail Public Library. I married there, had three children and devoted most of the next 15 years to them.
			Upon moving to Vancouver in 1975, I returned to UBC and completed a degree in their Fine Arts Studio Program. For the next ten years, I painted in various studio spaces in Vancouver, returning time and time again to elements of landscape. I studied Emily Carr's spiritual connection to the land and was influenced by Gordon Smith's paintings from the Queen Charlotte Islands. My work has been exhbited in a number of Vancouver galleries, as well as Interior ones. The spiritual relationships that the Native People have expressed in their art forms excite me. I'm a believer in God's creation of this wonderful world and am an avid environmentalist. I find that these aspects of my life greatly influence the subject matter of my paintings."
	Painting mainly landscapes, Catherine continually discovers ways to express the mystical beauty of the natural world. She supports ecological concepts that educate for a cleaner world. Catherine has had exhibits at BC Art Exhibitions such as the Richmond Art Gallery, Artists Gallery in Vancouver, Vernon Art Gallery, Kaslo, Visac Art Gallery in Trail, and the Grand Forks Art Gallery. Her current paintings are on exhibit at Gallery Odin on Silver Star Mountain in Vernon (British Columbia, Canada), Vernon Art Gallery Rental (1) & (2), Nadine's Fine Art & Frames in Vernon, and the Art Rental Program at the Grand Forks Art Gallery. Permanent collections include the B.C Assessment Authority, Richmond Art Gallery, All Saint's Anglican Church in Vernon, and many private collections in Canada, USA, and Europe.