Paintings by Cathy Diamond

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	--- Cathy's "The Bourne Cottage," a pen & ink & watercolor, was awarded 3rd Place in the mixed media category at the Pioneer Arts May-2009 Member Show.

Click the photo below to view 6 "Postcards from Mexico" which Cathy created of resort and beach scenes where she stayed in Mexico.

Artist Profile

Cathy Diamond's love of art goes back to grade school when she got her first camera and fell in love with pictures, even learning how to develop the negatives in the school darkroom. Her art teacher in high school encouraged her to draw and paint and taught her the rudiments of color and design. Cathy got an MBA in business and spent 25 years in a marketing career before retiring and going back to her art when she began taking watercolor, pastel and oil painting classes while living in Georgia.

After moving to Lake Wildwood, Cathy continued to experiment with art trying new styles and techniques, always learning and growing. Cathy feels that art should be fun and interesting and for her, it is a way of escaping from the world and creating something of her own. "We live in a mass production society which takes away from our individuality. Art brings us back to who we are as human beings and allows us to express ourselves."

Cathy loves faces and trying to bring out the uniqueness of the person she is drawing or painting. "I have to feel something about the people I draw. When I was told not to paint the faces of family members because it was too complicated, I had to give it a try." Cathy also paints landscapes. When her daughter asked for a painting of the family farm in Minnesota, she did a large canvas that gives the impression of the wide open spaces of the prairie where she grew up.

This talented artist has won numerous awards and ribbons in local art shows. She exhibits regularly in the Wildwood Clubhouse and has shown her work at the Center for the Arts, So Yuba River Bridgeport State Park, and the Nevada County Fair. She has also had a number of her paintings and photographs on the cover of the TWI newspaper. Cathy has taken classes from local artists Pauline Aldridge, Marilyn Rose, Pat DeSota and Gayle Rappaport-Weiland, and feels that to grow as an artist, one should get involved in classes and the local art scene.

Cathy is currently the president of the Wildwood Art Club.