Cathy
B.
Matthews
B.
Matthews
Cathy enjoys working with various media including oil,
watercolor, and acrylic. When painting still life or en
plein air, her style leans toward realism; but she also
enjoys the spontaneity of painting abstractly. She says,
“I love to observe someone reading one of my
abstracts. It’s always interesting to hear the individual
interpretation. In “Evening Flight”, I saw flying birds
as the title suggests. Yet, another interpretation of the
same painting was that it represented the
extinguishing of the wildfires in California.”
An artist for over 27 years, she credits her mother and
first teacher, Elaine Benfield, with her interest in art.
While mostly self-taught, she has studied with Mariam
Simpson of New York; Bertha Michelle of Salisbury,
North Carolina; and Wayne Chambers of Savannah,
Georgia. In her China Grove studio, Cathy extends her
artistic interests to working with clay.
Having studied hand building, wheel throwing, and
figurative sculpting, Cathy has been a clay artist for
over 7 years. Bust portraits, masks, and one-of-a-kind
hand-sculpted birdhouses are favorite projects. She
has studied with Sonja Stoekli of Midlothian, VA, and
sculptor Chase Winfield of Kannapolis, NC. She
currently exhibits pottery and sculpture in the Wayne
Chambers Gallery in Savannah, GA.
watercolor, and acrylic. When painting still life or en
plein air, her style leans toward realism; but she also
enjoys the spontaneity of painting abstractly. She says,
“I love to observe someone reading one of my
abstracts. It’s always interesting to hear the individual
interpretation. In “Evening Flight”, I saw flying birds
as the title suggests. Yet, another interpretation of the
same painting was that it represented the
extinguishing of the wildfires in California.”
An artist for over 27 years, she credits her mother and
first teacher, Elaine Benfield, with her interest in art.
While mostly self-taught, she has studied with Mariam
Simpson of New York; Bertha Michelle of Salisbury,
North Carolina; and Wayne Chambers of Savannah,
Georgia. In her China Grove studio, Cathy extends her
artistic interests to working with clay.
Having studied hand building, wheel throwing, and
figurative sculpting, Cathy has been a clay artist for
over 7 years. Bust portraits, masks, and one-of-a-kind
hand-sculpted birdhouses are favorite projects. She
has studied with Sonja Stoekli of Midlothian, VA, and
sculptor Chase Winfield of Kannapolis, NC. She
currently exhibits pottery and sculpture in the Wayne
Chambers Gallery in Savannah, GA.
Amaryllis
Overcash Farm
Hopscotch
PPink Dogwood
Miss Kate, Okracoke
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