About

The world always seems brighter when you’ve just made something that wasn’t there before — Neil Gaiman

 

Bio:

 

Catherine Richardson is an abstract painter with a touch all her own. The touch is not a light one. She vigorously works each canvas using gestural movement all the while imposing her many juxtapositional lifestyles.

• Fine jewellery with ripped jeans

• Tears and laughter

• Humour and reverence

• Nature vs. City life.

 

Catherine is intrigued by every push and pull intuitively adding and subtracting.

 

Catherine considers herself unabashedly self taught. After courses in realism and watercolour didn’t float her boat she focused on other creative adventures such as interior decorating, furniture design, homebuilding, corporate colour forecasting and sports apparel design. While she loved these mediums her dependancy on “middle men” was found to be stifling. Years later while reading she realized the pieces to her puzzle lay in the world of abstract art. She now spends her time immersing herself and soaking up the world as a sponge. All that doodling through high school and university transfers itself at last into her world of mark making and expressionism.

 

Catherine is an abstractionist living and laughing in Northern Ontario, Canada

 

Inspirations to her include:

• Her surroundings moss /colour

• Jewellery designers

• People and their humour

 

Known for her melding of feminine and masculine styles, she strives for evolvement and meaning in both her creativity and her interpersonal growth. Having vision has been a blessing to her and abstract art has allowed so many outlets for her rich experiences and many layers, much like her works of art.

 

 Artist Statement

I consider myself both a realist in life matters yet an empath. I weave design concepts intuitively in each piece while lost in thought. Each painting is infused with love because life is short. I do hope my sense of humour and emotion peek through.

 

 Childhood influences:

• Running wild on the shores of beautiful Trout Lake on our family property.

• My kaleidoscope (I was pretty sure there were animals rearranging glass pieces in there). It was endless hours of patterns never repeating themselves.

 

I believe in art that reads like a conversation. Perhaps it creates an inner dialogue with the viewer. As long as they emote.

 

Why Abstract?

I love nuance. We have enough reality. Literal isn’t always necessary. I prefer reinterpretation. It is very free and complicated at the same time.

 

Abstraction is a reflection of our layered soul in a beautiful and mysterious equation.

Catherine Richardson