“If you do one thing with this life remember to reforest your soul.”
Dr. Murray Cox
This body of work came from a feeling of ‘the creative self’ running on empty with a desire to ‘reforest the soul’. Catherine fell back on her first love - poetry - and set up a conversation between the word and the image. The poems here are either newly found or remembered from past times. The trajectory of the artistic journey random, the image chasing the words of poetry. The medium of the work - ink - a new venture for Catherine.
This body of work is also a new venture with an exploration into digital work influencing the outcome of Fine Art . These methods create an enormous potential and versatility in many printing methods. My aim is to work with designers, decorators etc through mediums such as paper, glass, perspex, wallpaper, aluminium composite and primed plywood and fabric.
Underground Streams
“But when I try to imagine a faultless love
Or the life to come, what I hear is the murmur
Of underground streams, what I see is a limestone landscape.”
- W.H. Auden
We Shall Not Cease from Exploration
“We shall not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we began and know the place for the first time.”
- T.S. Elliot
Lost and Moated Land
“In your sleepy eyes I read a journey
Of which disjointedly you tell; which stirs
My loving admiration, that you should travel
Through nightmare to a lost and moated land
Who are timorous by nature.”
- Robert Graves
Blooms and Freezes
“What can you expect in a world
That blooms and freezes, all at once.”
- Mark Doty