ARTIST STATEMENT

“In the original drawings and the first brushstrokes, the painting awakens. The nature of watercolor is that each stroke is irreversible and each stroke wants to dictate the next. Behind each painting is a complexity that has little to do with what I plan and draw. By listening to my heart and by hearing the directives from the paintings, the works come into lives of their own.”


BIOGRAPHY

Cathleen received training from Stanley William Hayter, often named as the "father of modern printmaking." Upon graduation from the University of California, Cathleen traveled to Europe and began studies in the Accademia dei Belli Arte in Rome, Italy and the following year she began studies with Hayter in Paris, France. Many artists of great fame and achievement studied with S.W.Hayter in Paris and New York including Picasso and Salvador Dali. In Paris, Cathleen Daly worked in Atelier 17 (Hayter's studio) as a student, with the master artist and printer: Liao Shiou Ping. Together they worked on what is now called "Viscosity Printing". This method of intaglio printing (developed by SW Hayter) is based not only in the traditional techniques of intaglio but on rolling inks of differing oil contents together on different levels of the intaglio plate to make a fully colored image. With her broad background, she has found inspiration from sources as diverse as, Claude Monet's water lilies, Finnish poetry, and the strong influence of the Chinese and Japanese Arts communities in her home city of San Francisco. She describes her process of painting as a dialog.

Cathleen has exhibited extensively and repeatedly in Japan and Taiwan over the last twenty years. In 1993, she was commissioned by the University of Western Michigan to represent their reknowned department of American Women's Poetry. She has been a member of the Taidemaalariliitto Ry (Finnish Painters' Union) and has repeatedly received fellowships from the Cite International des Arts in Paris, France (as recently as 2004) and the Virginia Center for the creative Arts (2005). Cathleen has a MA in Printmaking from California State University of San Francisco and has taught at Lone Mountain College, California State University SF and Chico and at Lathi Polytechnic University in Finland.

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