Artist of the Month, August 2009 - Cathleen Rehfeld
Cathleen
Rehfeld is the featured artist at the Golden Art Gallery
for the month of August.
Cathleen received her BFA from the University of Texas at Austin with a degree in Fine Arts in 1983. After graduating, she worked in Graphic Design for advertising firms and as Art Director for various magazine publications in Austin.
From there she moved to Mexico City where she resided from 1985-1988, she worked as Art Director for the Mexico City News during the catastrophic earthquake in 1985. During that time in Mexico City, she was inspired and influenced by the work of several Mexican artists, Rufino Tamamayo, Orozco, Siqueiros, and Frieda Kahlo. By 1989 she had moved to Quito, Ecuador and was influenced by some of the local artists there.
In 1990 she moved back to the United States, to Oregon and began to reevaluate Graphic Design as a career. She had been to a museum show and found herself captivated by the Machiaoli school of painting. Soon after, she started taking classes at the Seattle Academy of Fine Arts in oil painting and drawing from instructors who had taught at the Art Students League in New York, and other well known painters.
It was not until 1995 that she began to pursue a career in fine
art painting, influenced by the natural beauty of her surroundings
in Oregon, and the Southern California Plein Air painters, and the
work of the Canadian Group of Seven. Cathleen continues to live and
paint in Oregon. Cathleen's works command attention with her
painterly approach. She is masterful at the use of both expressive
color and subtle values to capture the life, spirit, and essence of
her subjects. She is highly skilled in the application of classical
methods, and always mindful of the foundation role of light and
form. She has been exhibiting her paintings in Galleries and
non-profit arts organizations since 1996, including Solo and group
exhibitions. She has also had work published in national and
regional publications. Her work is included in numerous private and
public collections throughout the United States.
"I love doing small daily oil paintings. They have an immediate freshness about them. Whatever you are thinking about that day sort of goes into them, almost like a visual diary. About the medium, oil paint - I like the creamy color intense luscious look of oil paint. You can try out new ideas, new colors, new subject matter from day to day. I have larger work available at the Columbia Center for the Arts in Hood River, Oregon and Art on the Boulevard, Vancouver, Washington."
Be sure to check out Cathleen's blog Painting a Day, A Painterly View of the World.
Cathleen has work available at the Columbia Center for the Arts in Hood River, Oregon and Art on the Boulevard, Vancouver, Washington.
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