Catherine Mommsen Scott

Most of my life has been nomadic, from Alaska to Florida, Washington state to Washington DC, Hawaii to Ontario, Canada and points between. I’ve now settled on the East Coast of the US. Art allows me to continue to explore the world. To me, it's all about detail and process. Drawing, painting and other creative media help me to understand the human condition, to impose my own sort of order on chaos. Although I am not personally religious, I'm interested in religious and cultural beliefs, customs, rituals, artifacts, icons, symbols, architecture, and the ways in which religion and culture affect each other. I'm drawn to the odd, the quirky, the esoteric; to the grace and flow of textiles and garments on the human form; to the emotional and psychic elements of the human condition, as well as to the physical. My formal training is in technical drawing which, when it isn't an overt element, is a heavy influence in my work.

I like working in small book format, and have been concentrating on artists books for the past several years, incorporating image transfers, stitching, drawing, textile and paper into my creations.

My goal in taking this class presented by Armando Mesias is to move from my (self-perceived) rigid, structured style to a more open, fluid, intuitive style. I want to move outside of what has become a comfort zone. I admire Mesias’s style.