Cathyann Burgess

 

 

New York City native
Education: MS  Art Ed SUNY State College at Buffalo

Studied with: Nelson Shanks, Daniel Greene

Taught in public, private and Museums settings for over 25 years

2015 Honorable mention  Bring US Your Best at Arts Council of Henderson County, NC

www.cathyannburgessfineart.com/

cathyannburgess@gmail.com

 

SUMMERTIME BLUES, 14 x 11

 

“This is what I want to tell you. I can’t not paint.
I love to move colors around with pastels. I love the challenge of orchestrating a blank paper in to a symphony of color.
How do I explain as I walk down a street or drive in a car and observe what is before me, that in my mind, I am painting? I think about how I would describe the sky is in late afternoon as it illuminates the angles on an alley.
Or, as I passed my window, I think about how that intense dash of vermilion popping out in the grayness of the trees in winter would convey the most handsome cardinal.
I have chosen to lead a fairly simple existence, doing positive things and making use of my gifts to create things that are beautiful to witness and to share my witness of things beautiful.
I have tried to bring awareness to others through teaching about it.
We can only do small things, most of us, to make this world a better place to live.”               

                                                                                                                                    AUTUMN, 14 x 11

Cathyann with her husband, now makes her home and studio in Hendersonville North Carolina.

 

 

 

 

 

MOUNTAIN TOP LIGHT, 5×11

She paints full time after retiring from teaching art at Benedictine High School, Richmond VA, where she chaired the department of Fine Arts she created in 1998.
Her works are in both corporate and private collections