Contemporary Art
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Artist, Catherine M. Elliott is one of the world's leading practitioners of Contemporary Impressionism, a style that applies the techniques of Impressionist masters like Claude Monet to the Modern American landscape.
This 43 year old painter comes from a long line of successful East Coast artists. Catherine's grandfather studied painting in France; her mother apprenticed with master painter Guy Carleton Wiggins in New Haven, CT; and her uncle is currently a professor at the Philadelphia Academy of Fine Arts. She grew up in a colonial Connecticut home that dates back to the 1700's, situated amid a pastoral setting that included Morqan horses, sheep, ducks and a variety of wildlife. As a child, Catherine frequently carried a sketchbook and paint box, drawing the horses and landscapes she loved.

Catherine's masterful canvases do not depict Victorian women in long dresses clutching parasols or water lilies floating in Giverny, France. Rather, they focus upon the natural landscapes of New England, exploring the deep connection between color and light in Connecticut's cultivated gardens and wild countryside.

I'm compelled to paint and bring light and color intimately together, she says. My vision as an artist is to see and translate to the world the visual wonders of nature and to lift the spirit to a place of peace and contentment.

The serene effects of Catherine Elliott's canvases have not gone unnoticed, as a number of corporations, institutions and knowledgeable collectors throughout the United States aggressively collect her work. ...

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