Catherine Eaton Skinner

I have lived in the Northwest most of my life, my childhood in Bellevue, a farm for twenty years on San Juan Island, and a return to Seattle for the last twenty-seven years. My sister and I were encouraged early to be artists, given crayons and blank paper, and both continue to share this with each other. I received my Bachelor of Arts in Biology from Stanford University, also studying art with Nathan Oliveira and Frank Lobdell. Venturing to Stanford’s Hopkins Marine Station for a scholastic quarter, my early biological illustration became focused on Pacific coast marine life, continuing for the next twenty years working on books, articles and installations. Marrying early out of the university and having three children, my first husband and I lived on San Juan Island for twenty years. Fairly self-sufficient and on little income, we spent little time in the city and constructed our own home. I continue to love to garden, ride my horse, but the flock of fifty sheep had to move on.

2017 East/West Calligraphy, group workshop, Kazuaki Tanahashi, Master East Asian Calligrapher, Venice, Italy

2015 Monotype, private workshop, Ron Pokrasso, Santa Fe, NM

2006-2007 Glass Casting with Susan Balshor, Pratt Fine Arts Center, Seattle, WA

2004 Beyond Monotype, Ron Pokrasso; College of Santa Fe Print Center, NM

2002 Beyond Monotype, Ron Pokrasso; College of Santa Fe Print Center, NM

2000 Stone Lithography, Phyllis McGibbon; University of Washington & Pratt Fine Arts Center

1996 Monotype Workshop, Linda Goodman; Florence, Italy

1992-1993 Oregon School of Arts & Crafts, Painting Workshops, Portland, OR

1985 Portland State University, “New Art, New Music, New York”, Portland, OR

1968 B.S., Biology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
Art minor under Nathan Oliveira & Frank Lobdell; Stanford University, CA

1967 Stanford in Italy, Spring-Summer; Florence, Italy

1966 Hopkins Marine Station; Research written, illustrated & published, Monterey, CA

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2018 REITERATION, Abmeyer + Wood Fine Art, Seattle, WA
STACKS, Radius Books, Santa Fe, NM

2017 SILENCE WITHOUT ECHO, WaterWorks Gallery, Friday Harbor, WA

2018 10x10x10xTIETON, The Mighty Tieton, Tieton, WA
NATURAL INCLINATIONS, Seager/Gray Gallery, in Mill Valley, CA
GRAND OPENING, galleryFRITZ, Santa Fe, NM
THE EAST CUT ART FAIR, with Seager Gray Gallery, San Francisco, CA


GROUP EXHIBITIONS (continued)

2017 HOLIDAY EXHIBIT, Waterworks Gallery Friday Harbor, WA
HIDDEN NARRATIVE, Curator: Chloe Dye Sherpe, Museum of Northwest Art,
La Conner, WA
16th ANNUAL NORTHWEST EYE REGIONAL FINE ART PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBIT,
Curator: Dennis High, Morris Graves Museum of Art, Eureka, CA
THE ART OF THE BOOK, Seager Gray Gallery, Mill Valley, CA
ART MARKET SAN FRANCISCO, with Seager Gray Gallery, Fort Mason Center,
San Francisco, CA
MATERIAL MATTERS, Seager Gray Gallery, Mill Valley, CA
CODEX BOOK FAIR & SYMPOSIUM, Berkeley, CA