Cathy Carey I am best described as a contemporary expressive colorist. I use color to create emotional meaning and visual depth. I want my paintings to be more than just the reality of a description, and I strive to fill viewers with a sense of joy. Inspired by Henri Matisse, my goal is to paint what my subjects feel like, not what they look like. The natural world of animals and landscapes are my favorite… read more →
My starting college at fifteen and earning six degrees does not mean I am smarter than you. Degrees and education are not necessarily correlated. If you are curious, have access to a library (and today, the Internet), and make the time––e.g., rise early––you can be better educated than I. There are big gaps in my knowledge. By my standards, I am not well-educated; in fact, the only persons that I suspect were, are now long… read more →
See recent interview of me by Marilyn Moore of the Atlas Society: https://atlassociety.org/commentary/commentary-blog/6318-member-spotlight-diana-amsden. It reveals facets of me that may be new even to my relatives. In May, 2014, in the Santee YMCA parking lot (spaces for ~314 cars), I tripped over a tire stop in the walking lane between two parking spaces, indistinguishable in color from the adjacent pavement. I did a face plant, sustaining nasal and left suborbital fractures. My vision corrected after… read more →