Catherine Kerwick

Our Artist of the Month
Catherine Kerwick

email: ckerwick@earthlink.net

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I am a native of the Northwest and was greatly influenced by my mother, a professional artist. I grew up in a world of contemporary art, and by her example, I learned that my environment, inspiration, creativity or “anything and everything is art”.

I have always been drawn to the sensual nature of clay, how my hands communicate with the potential it contains, the mystery of bringing forth form from it. My sculpture developed as vessels of organic, intuitive sensuality inviting you to feel and respond to an essence, to look deeper into the space that the vessel holds.

Currently, I live next to the local reservoir where the Trumpeter Swan spends the winter nights and my work expresses my connection to them. A series of birds emerged, all vessels to awaken the soul and discover that beauty survives abundantly in our world. The birds embody a space between stillness and creation. Like our own solitary experience of life as part of the human flock, we survive and adapt to our environment. The swans migrate and return, year after year, and invite me on a quest for my own innate beauty and grace. They quicken my spirit, and teach me how to soar and also how to be still.

The female figure is also represented in my work. She is created within me as the Mother of all, a deity of creation, the exquisite beauty of being born into a human body. My woman is about serenity, prayer, restoration, the dreamtime, and I can express how deeply grateful I am to the sacred, transcendent divinity of the feminine.