Catherine’s interest in botanical art and illustration in began in 2008 with Mary Harden at her School of Botanical Art. She has studied with several other master teachers over the years, most often with Elaine Searle. She pursued commercial art in college and worked for many years in Silicon Valley as a mask layout designer, drawing computer chip masks. During a 10 year career break at home with young children, she studied ornamental horticulture and ran a landscape design business. Now retired, she looks forward to broadening and deepening of her skills to better capture the elusive plant essence.