Catherine Nash

Mesmerized by the expansiveness of space, I am always pondering on my place in the universe and the enigma of consciousness and existence. I am
inspired by things that make me wonder and if I could I would spend hours staring into the sky. The turning of day to night is a display of vast beauty, subtle color shifting as the earth moves. How varied cultures through history have striven to explain this mystery through mathematics and the sciences I find fascinating. The ancients observed the spiral unfolding of nature within
the sprouting of a seed, a radiating flower center, the proportions of the human form, the relationship of the Earth to the solar system, the turn of a galaxy. The spiral is a profound image of the movement of time and space. Miranda Lundy writes, "Sacred geometry charts the unfolding of number in space."
In my recent encaustic artworks, images of skies are seen juxtaposed with geometrical diagrams or sacred geometry used to design the floor plans of
ancient temples. A personal language of symbols distilled from years of sketchbooks, shelters, nests, boats and bowls; light, water, earth and sky; seeds, branches, roots and new growth, eyes and hands become timeless images that can be "read" allegorically in m...

After receiving a B.F.A. in Printmaking and Drawing from the University of New Hampshire in
1980, Nash spent a year and a half creating prints and drawings in Paris. In 1987, she graduated
from the University of Arizona with a Masters of Fine Arts in Mixed Media. Two independently
designed research trips to Japan enabled Nash to study the techniques of Japanese woodblock
printing and papermaking in depth. From 1996-2002, her extensive research in Italy and
Scandinavia increased her knowledge of historical and contemporary Western papermaking and
paper arts. Nash has combined encaustic waxes and filtered earth pigments with her handmade
paper works since 1994.

Recent Exhibitions:
2013 "Washi & Other Ephemera", Durango Arts Center, Durango, CO.
2013 Laconia Gallery, Boston, MA
2013 "Swept Away: Translucence, Transparence, Transcendence in Contemporary Encaustic", The Cape Cod Museum of Art, Dennis, MA. Curator Michael Giaquinto. May 18 - June 23, 2013
2013 Bowersock Gallery, Provincetown, MA. May 24-June 6, 2013
2013 The Art & Soul of Paper, Mandell's Gallery, Norwich, U.K.
2012 Dec - "Infinite Possibilities: Science, Math, Book Arts", 23 Sandy Gallery, Portland, OR
2012 Jun - "Distinctly Encaustic", Bowersock Gallery, Provincetown, MA.
2012 “7th Nat'l Encaustic Invitat'l”, Conrad Wilde Gallery, Tucson AZ
2011 Sofia Paper Biennial, Sofia, Bulgaria. Invited Artist
2011 Muzeum Książki Artystycznej, Lodz, Poland."9th Internat'l Book Art Festival" (traveling 3yrs)
2011 Art Center Sarasota, Sarasota, FL. "WOW: Women & Wax"
2011 Melbourne, Australia. "Internat'l Book Exhibit"
2011 Truro Center for the Arts, Truro, MA. “Sculpture in Wax"