CATHERINE BENNETT has been painting watercolors professionally since 1986. She has held the position of Visual Arts Department Chair for the Metropolitan School for the Arts and has created and taught an art curriculum for Syracuse University, OCM BOCES, and the Syracuse City School District. Catherine has written art reviews for the Herald Journal Newspaper and been asked to present workshops for the Universal Education Foundation, the Bradford Group, and Art Haven. She has served as a juror for the New York State Art Competition of the American Legion, and continues to teach adult art classes in both the Central New York region and in Tampa Bay, Florida. Catherine is an associate member of the American Watercolor Society, the National Watercolor Society, and the Florida Watercolor Society. She is a signature member and Vice President of the Central New York Watercolor Society, and Executive Director of Artwork Ten LLC, the retail entity of her artworks.
Bennett has shown in Agora Gallery in SoHo, NYC, she’s been published by Courage Card Co. of Minneapolis and is currently represented by The Art & Wine Gallery of Clearwater Beach, in Clearwater Florida and the Waterfront Gallery of Tarpon Springs, Florida. She is listed in Who’s Who of American Artists, Who’s Who of American Women, and the 2008 Edition of Who’s Who in America. Her artwork has been exhibited at the VIVA Gallery near Los Angeles, California for the National Watercolor Society Show in 2008, at Munson William Proctor Art Institute, at the Arkell Museum in Canajoharie and won Best of Show at the Everson Museum Exhibit in Syracuse. In mid-August of 2009, Catherine accepted a New York State Council on the Arts Grant award from Madison County. She is collected internationally across the globe from Burma, India; where she’s been commissioned to create portraiture; to Pescara, Italy; where patrons enjoy her Italian landscapes. She has won numerous gold medal, Best of Show awards in juried shows across the United States.
Her paintings exhibit a unique and masterly style. Some of Catherine’s most provocative work synthesizes portraiture with nature to create extremely interesting, camouflaged subjects. Her watercolors depict emotional experiences or memories that cross every ethnic barrier and unite us all in similarity. Strong light, bold values, and a sense of timeless mystery fill her work. Delicate subtleties in hue, glazed in transparent washes, with layers of poured paint describe her techniques. She is inspired to capture nature’s perfection and interfuse it with the never ending, ever powerful human spirit. Catherine’s original watercolor paintings and prints are available at her Artwork Ten Studio and online at www.artworkten.com