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Artist Statement

Cathy is a contemporary landscape painter. The beautiful and distinct elements of the Mornington Peninsula, is where Cathy Usatoff’s landscapes unify her memories and associated images both imagined and experienced in all the seasonal elements it offers. It is the interplay of representation and abstraction, observation and imagination. Working predominantly in acrylic paint on canvas, she creates ideal landscapes that are especially inspired by the peninsula's farms, wineries and coastal bushland, as well as the scenes surrounding her nearby holiday home. Her works acknowledge and  remind viewers of the bountiful beauty of regional Victoria.

Profoundly attracted to colour and unique aesthetic combinations, being what her mind and eye always acknowledges first, Cathy's works are an exploration of colour juxtapositions and their visual energy on the canvas. Always beginning with a strongly coloured background, the ensuing marks of harmonising and opposing colours are made instinctively and intuitively, as she lets the process guide her.

What develops as a result of fortunate chance and organic process, many involuntary colours, brushstrokes, smudges and dribbles of paint remain within the works, becoming integral to the final composition. Added in multiple layers, these unforeseen and often-surprising elements contribute facets of dimension and texture, and ignite visual excitement and captivation.

“ I am a colourist at heart. My response to the landscape is a visual dance celebrating the joy and expressive world of colour”

Cathy Usatoff - CV
Education

1996 - 1997

Diploma in Arts Visual Merchandising Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology

1987

Graduate Diploma in Education

Victoria College

1984 - 1986

Bachelor Fine Art

Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology

Group Exhibitions

2023

Sweet and Sour

Mia Oatley Petite Collection

2023

Affordable Art Fair Melbourne

2023

FINALIST Small Works Art Prize

Petite Collection - Mia Oatley and Ken Done Gallery

2023

Incognito Art Show Sydney

2023

Camberwell Art Show

Swinburn University, Melbourne

2023

Victorian Artists Society 9 x 5 Exhibition,

Melbourne

2022

Affordable Art Show Melbourne

2022

Scotch College Australian Art Show Melbourne

2022

Camberwell Art Show

Swinburn University, Melbourne

2022

Red Hill Art Show

Mornington Peninsular, VIC

2022

The Grammar Art Show

Toowoomba QLD

2022

FINALIST 'Inside this Box’

Corner Store Gallery, Orange NSW

2021

Mt. Eliza Art and Design Show Mt. Eliza

2021

The Grammar Art Show

Toowoomba, QLD

2020

'My Place’ Virtual Show

Australian Landscape Painters Group

2020

Red Hill Art Show Mornington Peninsular

2020

’10 of the Best’ Camberwell Art Show Melbourne

2020

'Fall’ Group Show

Old Auction House, Kyneton

2019

Albert Park College Art Show Melbourne

2019

Small Works Art Prize

Brunswick St, Gallery, Melbourne

2019

FINALIST Mornington Peninsular Green Wedge Landscape Prize, Merricks House

2019

Camberwell Art Show

Swinburne University, Melbourne

2019

Red Hill Art Show Mornington Peninsular

2019

International Women’s Day Group Show WHO Gallery, Melbourne

2018

Student Exhibition

Melbourne School of Art, Elsternwick

2018

'Local 2' Group Show

WHO Gallery, Melbourne

Awards

2021

WINNER Landscape Prize

Southern Buoy Studios, Mornington

Solo Exhibitions

2023

'Vivid - The Colour of Landscape’

Malvern Artists Society, Malvern

2019

'The Nature of Colour’

Melbourne School of Art, Elsternwick

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Welcome to my website and thankyou for visiting. I hope you enjoy my work! Cathy
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