Featuring the Inspirational Visionary Art of Catlyn O'Day Preston
Featuring
the Inspirational
Visionary Art of
Catlyn O'Day Preston
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A word about "folk art"
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are several terms used to describe self-taught artists, including Folk, Naive, Outsider or Brut, Primitive and Visionary. While all styles are from the heart - pure and authentic - visionary art arises from the inner voice and is ruled more by the spiritual side of the artist. Oftentimes, but not always, the talent is discovered when the artist is older and after a catastrophic change in the artist's life. Catlyn O'Day Preston's art is visionary in that she had felt for some time she had the ability to paint. After a major change in her life she produced her first painting -- and hundreds more since. |
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Catlyn
started painting in the early 1990s with no formal training but armed with
a strong conviction that she could paint.
Choosing acrylics, her first painting included everything from her beloved Lake Superior to images of Nantucket
(where
she and husband Rob were married) to her two Cocker Spaniels, Morgan and Tierney,
(little people with fur) who kept her company in her studio while the painting
evolved.
She began her second painting the minute she had finished the first --
her third painting, a portrait of a local favorite nightclub, was purchased
immediately by the club's owner.
Since that time, she has commissioned and completed
well over 250 paintings for
home and business owners, as well as many landscape "memory paintings,"
so-called because they are rendered from memories of favorite places the artist
has lived or visited.
She
has also been featured in numerous magazines and participated in juried
art shows from Michigan to the East Coast.
In addition, she has worked
with Lenox Collections, Landauer Corporation, Bacova Guild, Country Home
Magazine,
Mead Corporation, Williamhouse-Regency, Landmark Stock Exchange,
Bradford Exchange and Color Charts of San Diego.
She has also been represented
by Windward Gallery in Morehead City, North Carolina.
Catlyn is also showing her work and producing Giclee prints through Gallery West, a subsidiary of Ben Franklin, in Marquette, Michigan. She produced the Christmas print "Marquette Christmas" which will be promoted by Gallery West for this coming Christmas. Any original image of Catlyn's may be produced as a Giclee print -- just call for information!
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