Catherine Nash

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Artist Statement

Beauty. Serenity. Compassion. Nature. The poetics of landscape. A particular timelessness. The nature of Being.

I can spend hours staring into the sky, mesmerized by the expansiveness of the sky, pondering on our place in the universe. The vastness of space holds an ultimate touchstone for me: the sky is a window to the infinite. Through time, humankind has sought to explain and fathom the mystery of our being: in these bodies, on this planet, in this galaxy through mathematics and science and religion. My studies in archeo-astronomy - the exploration of how varied cultures have explained the mysteries of the stars and sky through mapping, symbols and myth - as well as my own dreaming and explorations have informed “An Inner Astronomy” and my recent work.


Bio
A long time resident of Tucson, Arizona, Catherine Nash is an artist who freely mixes media in her work to express her ideas. Nash received a B.F.A. in Printmaking and Drawing from the University of New Hampshire and in 1987, graduated from the University of Arizona with a Masters of Fine Arts in Mixed Media. Spending a year and a half creating prints and drawings in Europe led to two independent research trips to Japan, enabling Nash to study the techniques of Japanese woodblock printing and papermaking in depth. Her love of travel and different cultures has inspired her to live, exhibit, research and teach on four continents.

Having published four educational DVDs on the art of papermaking, Nash has just completed the writing of an e-book entitled Authentic Visual Voices. In it, Nash features her edited video interviews with 28 international artists in their studios across North America and Europe. Nash's work has been included by invitation into numerous national and international exhibitions including a solo retrospective of artist books at the Durango Center for the Arts in Colorado and in the International Biennial for Paper & Fibre Art which is currently traveling from the U.K to France and Taiwan and back to Switzerland. The landscape, aesthetics and cultures of Japan, her experiences with Native Americans and explorations of the southwestern deserts have influenced and informed her work.