Mentorship is the fastest way to go from where you are today, to where you want to be! Learn How Mentorship Works or join this mentors group below. Not sure what stage you are? Click here for descriptions.
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MEDIUMS: Assemblage Art | Drawing | Encaustic | Fibre | Mixed Media | Sculpture | Watercolor SPECIALTY:✔Critiques ✔ Finding your Artistic Voice (Narrative) ✔ Technique & Demos
The Metaphor and Poetry of Nature with Catherine Nash
With an insatiable curiosity about the world and a deep love of nature, my artwork explores an intersection of poetic dreaming and the natural world. Making paper from plants, burning my own charcoal, and grinding homemade watercolor paints from harvested earth pigments all connect me to my environment. As I create, I consider my inner and philosophical relationship with the natural world. Join our mentor group as we:
Become competent in manipulating and utilizing color, mark-making, lost edges, atmosphere, and composition to strengthen our art making.
Learn specific ways to create beyond a mere depiction: imbuing our art with emotion, mood, and atmosphere. The arrangement of shapes and composition, as well as a focused use of value, color relationships, and light, can create an emotional impact.
Investigate how using natural elements like seasons, plants, and animals as symbols can represent broader themes and how nature’s cycles and patterns can be used as metaphors. We will explore using nature as our point of departure to create works of poetic beauty.
Focus on developing an expressive, distinctive body of work that is thematically focused and aesthetically consistent in presentation…ready for gallery and museum exhibitions.
All media welcome! I’ll include short demos and offer individualized exploration prompts through journaling, drawing, and art making during each mentoring session.
Your work will evolve to express your unique vision. I love helping artists to expand and experience inspired breakthroughs. This shared experience with a committed group of artists is significant and relevant for everyone involved. I always learn so much, myself! It’s a beautiful exchange~
Catherine’s EXPERTISE
Listed below are this Mentor’s specialty skills. Join this group if you want to grow in these areas.
Supplies and tools – what to use, where to save, and where to spend
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Providing Art Critiques
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Teaching How to Self Critique
“Mastrius is a perfect balance of accountability, community and fun. It feels like family. Family that makes you a better you.” ~ Elizabeth, Emerging Artist
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Your Membership Includes (click here):
Mentorship Session: Meet via video conference for a monthly 2-hour session with your Mentor and small group. You choose the mentor, we provide the group!
Mid-Month Session: Meet via video conference for a 1-hour session with your small group and Navigator to connect, share progress, encouragement, and support.
Weekly Events: Attend LIVE weekly events online, on hot topics like Finding Your Style, Composition & Critiques, plus master DEMOS. Access event recordings!
MyStudio: Access your private online studio space equipped with business tools and Mentorship Session Recordings.
Chat Group: Access your private online chat group to connect with your small group and Navigator (group facilitator) anytime.
Discounts: Enjoy member discounts on LIVE and ON-DEMAND courses, art supplies, and more!
Aspiring
Mentorship Membership
$ USD67/Month
Next session: May 14, 2025
On the 2nd Wednesday of every month 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM MDT Wed
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MORE ABOUT THE ARTIST
A long time resident of Tucson, Arizona, Catherine Nash is an artist who freely mixes media in her work to express her ideas. Nash’s love of travel and different cultures has inspired her to live, research and teach on four continents over the course of 40+ years. Perhaps most inspiring were two self-designed research trips to Japan, where she studied the techniques of Japanese woodblock printing and papermaking, and was inspired by Japanese culture and aesthetics.
She received a B.F.A. in Printmaking and Drawing from the University of New Hampshire and an M.F.A. in Mixed Media from the University of Arizona. Nash has been a faculty member teaching drawing and watecolor painting at the “Arizona Sonora Desert Museum Art Institute” since 2003. In addition, she has taught advanced workshops in drawing, encaustic painting, Western/Japanese handmade paper, sculptural paper casting and sculptural artist books across the U.S., as well as in professional studios in eight European countries, Canada, Japan and Australia. Her work has been included by invitation into numerous national and international exhibitions.
Nash was, and is still, greatly honored to have received the “Lumies Artist” award for southern Arizona, “awarded to an individual artist that has demonstrated excellence, originality and ingenuity in the local arts and culture sector.” She was also awarded two 3 week long artist residencies at “The Lake” near Eureka, California in the studio of the late painter Morris Graves.
Experiences with her relatives in Ireland, explorations of the aesthetics and cultures of Japan, the rich gradations and spaciousness of Scandinavian summer night skies, and time spent within the wilderness of the southwestern desert, influence and inform Nash’s artwork. With a life long dedication and consistency in her studio practice, Nash creates mixed media paintings, sculptures, and installations that respond to nature and reflect a spiritual and philosophical relationship with the environment: the poetics of landscape.
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