Collection: Catie Faryl

Catie Faryl grew up on the west coast and currently resides in Oregon.  For the last 25 years she has been a working artist, writer, and community organizer, melding her artwork with her ongoing social and environmental projects to educate the world around us.  Her artwork addresses the ambiguity and poignancy of the human condition. Through a study of personal, political, environmental, and social issues, she creates watercolors, etchings and oil paintings to shed light and raise questions on difficult topics.  Her works attempt to use humor, balance, insight and gravity to explore questions both new and old.  Join her journey, which begins with curiosity and progresses to discoveries and dialogue with those along the way.

Straight from the artist:

I knew I was an artist at a very young age.  When I was two, I talked my older sister into breaking all our crayons in half so I wouldn't have to wait for her to be done with a color.  Many of my paintings are about the human condition, which I still believe to be a bit more comic than tragic.  Life drawing, oil, watercolor, and printmaking are my main media.  I currently participate in environmental groups in their efforts to promote doable climate actions, social justice viewpoints, and rights of nature; and to approach problems and solutions creatively and optimistically.  I take inspiration from those efforts, and so my art is colorful and at times provocative, challenging and sardonic.  Hopefully it offers food for thought and opportunities for collectors to project and reflect.