Cat Clauson – Signed Original Acrylic on Board “Empowered IV”

Description

“I follow MY HEART and paint what I FEEL.  It’s the life of artist Cathee ‘Cat’ Clausen. It’s her artwork’s unspoken word.  Imagining and creating with a thought, a brush, paint and a canvas, each work begins with the simplest element – a memory or a feeling – and builds from there. From her childhood recollections of camping in Sedona or the Grand Canyon, of sleeping under an Indian blanket each night, of building sandcastles by the ocean, or forming mud animals to bake in the hot desert sun, to the current sleepy central Illinois town she calls home, Clausen’s life and artwork have danced around each other for years.

Born in Brawley, Calif., Clausen spent the majority of her childhood with her parents and siblings in Arizona, where her mom taught elementary school to Native American Apaches and her father worked as a arid plant geneticist. She spent her days as a budding artist, making her own jewelry and pottery and clothing, taking camping and nature trips throughout the desert and soaking in a southwestern, Bohemian life.