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River Road<\/p><\/div>\n

By Gina Malone<\/p>\n

An Atlanta native, artist Cathryn P. Cooper has found her creative home in Western North Carolina. \u201cI believe there is something sacred in this landscape of North Carolina,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n

She finds her drives along the back roads particularly inspiring. \u201cFrom my treks into the Brevard studio, I notice the loveliness of the light and dark from the trees and the shadows they cast on the roads. The light here in WNC is captivating.\u201d She is reminded, she says, of the Japanese concept of \u201cforest bathing,\u201d an immersion of the senses in the natural world.<\/p>\n

Art and music have been a part of her life since childhood. Her mother was a pianist and vocalist and Cooper and her three siblings were taught to play piano by her maternal grandmother, who also encouraged her to enroll in afterschool art classes. \u201cI enjoyed drawing very much as a child,\u201d she says. \u201cI would drive my sister crazy, collecting pieces of paper and objects every day. We shared a bedroom. I was always picking up leaves too. That might account for my interest in collage.\u201d<\/p>\n

At Atlanta College of Art, now a part of Savannah College of Art and Design, she continued her training, graduating with a BFA in drawing and painting. She continued working at the college\u2019s Woodruff Arts Center for years after graduation. During that time, she discovered photography, \u201cwhich may explain why I am so fascinated with conditions of light and atmosphere,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n

She began to make things out of paper, especially leaves and collages, many of which had a nature theme. When she entered a competition celebrating the Arches Paper mill in France having been open for 500 years, the collage she submitted won her a trip to the mill. \u201cI had never been overseas and it changed\u00a0my life,\u201d she says. When she returned home, she experienced a surge of creativity. She had a photography show and exhibits displaying her collages. She began to draw and paint again. Through her position with Raiford Gallery in Roswell, GA, she met her husband, Paul, and the two eventually decided to settle in WNC.<\/p>\n

\u201cI still like making collages,\u201d she says, \u201ccombining drawings and paintings with found objects to tell a story. But my larger focus at hand is drawing and painting. After doing some graphite drawings depicting my observations driving on the roads, I started wanting to add color. I also wanted to draw on canvas and see if I could paint into the drawings. My current work is very much about watery layers of paint with drawing very present in the mix.\u201d<\/p>\n

She uses graphite powder and pencils for drawing and acrylics for painting. When works are complete, she glazes them to hold the graphite in place and protect the painting. \u201cI feel a sense of joy bringing pencil to paper,\u201d she says. \u201cMaking marks and letting paint drip feeds me.\u201d Her artist\u2019s statement and phrase to create by is this: \u201cI am drawing when I am painting and painting when I am drawing.\u201d<\/p>\n

She works from her home at Lake Toxaway and at Artists@ Work, the studio\/gallery in Brevard she and fellow artist Lucy Clark opened last year. \u201cI am constantly creating,\u201d Cooper says. \u201cI have reconciled to the fact that I can\u2019t turn it off. I also honor the fact that it is a gift to be able to create.\u201d<\/p>\n

The time has come, she says, to ignore some of the rules that she learned throughout her education as an artist and interpret her own feelings as she creates. \u201cI want to create work that has atmosphere,\u201d she says. \u201cI love the idea that my paintings invoke something like a fleeting image in the mind\u2019s eye, as if the image was caught from a quick glance out of the window and the mind fills in the rest.\u201d<\/p>\n

Find Cathryn Cooper\u2019s work at Artists@Work at 51 West Main Street in Brevard, at Woodlands Gallery in Hendersonville and at Twigs & Leaves Gallery in Waynesville. She can be found on Instagram @artistsworkstudiogallery and @catpowcoop, and on Facebook at Artists at Work Studio and Gallery and at Cathryn Cooper. Websites are CathrynPCooperArt.com<\/a> and ArtistsWorkingBrevard.com<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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