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My Creative Process
My creative process and experience of art is woven with diverse experiences and a holistic viewpoint. In all aspects of my work as an artist, as an art therapist and as a nurse I weave aspects of creativity.
I am interested in creativity and different ways of knowing (aesthetic and personal). Subject matter, materials and themes vary. Cycles of nature, birth, life, death and rebirth interest me as well as spiritual matters.
Art and Image Making
Images are depicted using a variety of mediums: watercolors, acrylics, pastels, and mixed media paintings on paper or canvas. Images are representational and abstract, painted in the outdoors and in the studio. Some images are directly painted and others are done by creating under paintings and layering paint on the top and working into and lifting off paint. I like to work on one veil painting a year where I weave hundreds of layers of watercolor on paper and wait for images to appear. This is a meditative way to paint. A continuous thread is painting nature and people.
I have painted professionally since 1983 and have had 35 one woman shows.
My paintings have been purchased by RNABC (Registered Nurses Association of British Columbia) and British Columbia Western Forest Products and many private collectors. I exhibit in 3 galleries and have 2 studio tours and or shows per year of my work. I am an active member of the Federation of Canadian Artists and a full member of the Society of Layerists in Multi-media. (SLMM)
Other interests include traveling and painting and giving talks, nature, photography, painting, clay sculpture, people, tango dancing, plein air painting, a dog called Dustin, and my family.
My focus over the last two years has been on plein air painting, writing and giving talks on art, creativity and healing.
My intentions as an artist are to continue to grow, learn and explore using different materials and understandings. I hope you enjoy the imagery and can feel the heartbeat of the paintings.
My creative process and experience of art is woven with diverse experiences and a holistic viewpoint. In all aspects of my work as an artist, as an art therapist and as a nurse I weave aspects of creativity.
I am interested in creativity and different ways of knowing (aesthetic and personal). Subject matter, materials and themes vary. Cycles of nature, birth, life, death and rebirth interest me as well as spiritual matters.
Art and Image Making
Images are depicted using a variety of mediums: watercolors, acrylics, pastels, and mixed media paintings on paper or canvas. Images are representational and abstract, painted in the outdoors and in the studio. Some images are directly painted and others are done by creating under paintings and layering paint on the top and working into and lifting off paint. I like to work on one veil painting a year where I weave hundreds of layers of watercolor on paper and wait for images to appear. This is a meditative way to paint. A continuous thread is painting nature and people.
I have painted professionally since 1983 and have had 35 one woman shows.
My paintings have been purchased by RNABC (Registered Nurses Association of British Columbia) and British Columbia Western Forest Products and many private collectors. I exhibit in 3 galleries and have 2 studio tours and or shows per year of my work. I am an active member of the Federation of Canadian Artists and a full member of the Society of Layerists in Multi-media. (SLMM)
Other interests include traveling and painting and giving talks, nature, photography, painting, clay sculpture, people, tango dancing, plein air painting, a dog called Dustin, and my family.
My focus over the last two years has been on plein air painting, writing and giving talks on art, creativity and healing.
My intentions as an artist are to continue to grow, learn and explore using different materials and understandings. I hope you enjoy the imagery and can feel the heartbeat of the paintings.
Art ResumeCatherine Fraser Art Resume
I divide my time between 3 careers: art, art therapy, and nursing. Experience · Painted professionally since 1983 with 35 one woman shows and acceptance and awards in many juried shows · Paintings owned worldwide by by private, corporate and public collectors in Canada, (including EJ Hughes), plus in Japan, United States, Europe and South America, including the Registered Nurses Assoc of BC, and BC Western Forest Products. · Art therapy private work since 1989 · Teach childbirth education classes, art classes and art therapy workshops. · active member of the Federation of Canadian Artists since 1983 · full member of the Society of Layerists in Multimedia since 2004 Education · art courses, Continuing Education, University of Victoria · studied with Ustinov, McDonald and others through the Federation of Canadian Artists · Diploma Art Therapy, (2 year graduate program ),British Columbia School of Art Therapy, Victoria, B.C.1989 · IBP(Integrated Body Psychotherapy) Certificate: The Pacific Western Institute, Duncan, 1998 · Intermediate Therapeutic Touch, Orcas Island, Wa ,1995 · Toastmaster International ATM Bronze 2000-2003 · Highschool art scholarships and credit courses at the University of Victoria and UBC. |
GalleriesGalleries
· Two Rivers Gallery, Prince George · Station Street Gallery, Duncan · Catherine Fraser Studio, Cowichan Bay, BC -Art Gallery of Greater Victoria Selected Shows •1998-2018, "Visions" Studio Tours, Vancouver Island •1987-2018 Sooke Fine Art Shows, BC •2006-2018 Sidney Fine Art Show, BC •2018: Cedric's Coffee House, Crofton, BC •2017: "What If?", Portals Gallery, CVAC, Duncan BC •2016: "Art of Meditation & The Wisdom of Experience", Upper Canada Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark •2014: "No Place Like Home" Hays Art Centre, Hays, Kansas •2013-2018: "Who Is God?" Museum Contempo, Olympia, WA •2012: "Wings of the Morning", Christ Church Cathedral, Victoria, BC •2011: Hilltop Art Gallery, Ashland Oregon •2008 "Illumination", Sidney & Berne Davis Art Center, Fort Myers, FL, USA · Connections: We Are All One, Kentucky 2006 · Cowichan Theatre Gallery Show, (55 paintings), Duncan, BC 2006 · Painting On The Edge Show, Vancouver BC 2005 · Plein Air Painting Show, 2002-2006: Qualicum(2nd Prize 2002), Sidney, Nanaimo (1st Prize 2002), Victoria · One-woman show, Prince George Art Gallery 1989 · NW Watercolor Show, Seattle 1987 |
Publications
Publications featuring the art of Catherine Fraser
The HeArt of Nursing is a beautifully produced full-colour book which honours more than 90 nurses who honour the art which is inside them. This volume features 7 of the paintings of Catherine Fraser (RN, BScN, AT), including the front and back cover images. Available from the Honor Society of Nursing. Meeting Sacred Illness by Michael Ortiz Hill and Deena Metzger, with cover art by Catherine Fraser. Available from Elik Press. 
Visual Journeys: Art of the 21st Century
Society of Layerists in Multimedia, Fresco Fine Art Publications, 2010 (Three paintings featured) 
Who Is God: Continuance, by Robert Ellison, 2018 (4 Paintings included)
"Abstract Drawings of being Pregnant", by Catherine Fraser, Prenatal Psychology and Health Journal, Fall Issue, 2006.
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