Exhibitions and Shows

2010-2011 -First Snow- Trees Exhibit, Travelling show by Threadworks, Kingston, Ont.
2010-A Leaf Has Many Stems- Annual Juried Show- Marianne Van Silfhout Gallery, St. L. C, Brockville, July5-Aug.9
2010-Dreams of NASCAR-Tampered With Show- Paper Images Gallery, Picton, June 1-14
2010-Black and White Madonna- Off The Wall Show, Homer Watson House and Gallery- Kitchener/Waterloo, May 9-June 14
2010-Solo Exhibit-Corridor Gallery, Almonte, May
2010-Loose Threads Exhibit, King Street Gallery, Prescott, April
2010-Solo Show-Almonte Public Library, Almonte, April
2010-Winter- March Blues, Gallery Ouest, St Anne de Bellevue, P.Q., March 18-28
2009-Water - Annual Juried Show- Marianne Van Silfhout Gallery, St. L. C, Brockville
2009-Mom and Me# 133 - Annual Juried Show- Marianne Van Silfhout Gallery, St. L. C, Brockville
2008-Water- Past, Present, Future, Grand National Juried Show, Kitchener/Waterloo Art Gallery
2008-What Are You Looking At? - Annual Juried Show- Marianne Van Silfhout Gallery, St. L. C, Brockville
2008-Passages-Seven Threads, Brittannia Art Gallery, Ottawa
2008- The Farmer and His Wife-C.Q.A. Juried Show, St.John’s, Newfoundland
2008- City Cat- Tampered with Show, Paper Images Gallery, Picton
2007- What Are You Looking At?-Tampered With Show, Paper Images Gallery, Picton
2007-Driving in the Country- Ontario Juried Show
2006- I’m Here- Tampered with Show, Paper Images Gallery, Picton
2006- Peace Within-Planting Joy, Weston Hotel, Ottawa
2006-Orange Butterfly-Teacher Exhibit, C.Q.A., Algonquin College
2006-Modern Options-Teacher Exhibit, C.Q.A. Algonquin College
2006- Fibre Expressions- Ottawa School of Art Gallery, Ottawa, Ont.
2004-Renoir Inspired Flowers – C.Q.A. National Juried Show, Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta
2004- Show with the Out of the Box Fibre Art Group-Mississippi Valley Textile Museum, Almonte Ont
2004- Show with the Out of the Box Fibre Art Group, Carlen Gallery, Ottawa Ont.
2003- Creativitea Show- with the Out of the Box Fibre Art Group- Mississippi Valley Textile Museum, Almonte Ont.

Education

Teacher’s College, Ottawa Ont.
B.A. in Psychology and Art, Queen’s University, Kingston Ont.
Studied with Aley Kaye, Mickey Lawler, Rayna Gilman, Velda Newman, Jane Sasseman, Anna Hergert, Dorothy Caldwell,
Margo Wilde, Jan Preston, Ruth MacDowell

Lectures and Classes

Custom classes in my studio
Free tutorials on my blog-www.catharinablog.blogspot.com
Fibreworks, St. Lawrence College, Kingston, 2008
Quilt Canada, Ottawa 2006
St Lawrence College Summer School of the Arts, 2005, 2006
Algonquin College, Mississppi Summer School of the Arts, Almonte
Lectures and classes for various fibre groups and quilt guilds in Ont. and Quebec

Awards

A Leaf Has Many Stems- Viewer’s Choice Award, Annual Juried Show, Marianne Van Silfhout Gallery, Brockville, Ont. 2010
Driving in the Country- Founders Award, Ontario Juried Show, 2007
Terry’s Bears- First Place in the Art Quilt category and Viewer’s Choice, 2003
Summer Breeze- Keepsake Quilting Challenge Winner-1999

Publications

The Humm, April 2009
American Quilter, March, 2008
Perth Courier, 2007
Ottawa Citizen, November 2004

Affiliations

SAQA
CARFAC