"Kindred Spring" Painting

Cat Gutierrez is a San Francisco-based oil painter and energy practitioner who creates high-frequency, intuitive works that serve as portals for personal and collective transformation. Rooted in a deep commitment to process over perfection, Cat’s artistic journey began in high school under the guidance of her beloved teacher Sara Totah, where she first fell in love with oil painting’s richness, depth, and sensual texture. Over the past two decades, Cat has studied at institutions including the San Francisco Art Institute, UC Berkeley, CCA, and Penn Studio School of Art, continuously refining her technique while evolving her energetic and intuitive process. Cat thrives on experimentation. She shifts fluidly between palette knife, brush, and drip methods to evoke different emotional textures and energetic frequencies in her work. Influenced by the atmospheric light of Turner, the color fields of Frankenthaler, and the mystery of Diebenkorn and Mann, she creates paintings that invite the viewer inward — into sensation, memory, and spirit. Her work has been showcased in the de Young Museum student exhibition and her work lives in private and public spaces, including hospitals in San Francisco, CA and Belvedere, WA.

Cat currently lives in San Francisco with her family and paints in her backyard studio, where she continues to explore the union of earth and ether, art and soul.