London!

Yes, that’s Big Ben and I’ll be saying hello to him very, very soon.  I’m heading off to London on Sunday to promote the book and am very excited.  The trip was really just confirmed last weekend so this week I’m scrambling to get ready.
My publisher, Thierry Bogliolo, of Findhorn Press has hired a super [...]

Launched!

Last night my husband, Allan Hunter, and I had a dual book launch at The Arsenal Center for the Arts in Watertown, MA—and it was fantastic fun!  We each spoke for 20 minutes as part of the Text and ConText series—Allan on his book, Write Your Memoir, and I on my career as an illustrator/artist [...]

Drawing Club

Just spent a week here in Boston with Thierry Bogliolo, of Findhorn Press, the publisher of my book, The Confident Creative.  Thierry lives in the south of France and I think we might have had warmer weather if we’d met there! (Wouldn’t that be nice?!) As it turned out, there were massive snowstorms in the [...]

Just Kids

I just  finished reading Patti Smith’s memoir.  It’s the story of the very early days of her adult life when she was exploring her devotion to writing and art with a fervor that had a lot of flair to it.
The story takes off when Patti leaves a factory job in Camden, N.J. and heads into [...]

Back in the Studio

Back in the studio after a few weeks designing websites—my new art site—www.catbennettart.com and a new site for my book (The Confident Creative / Drawing to Free the Hand and Mind)—www.theconfidentcreative.com.  It has made my head spin a bit, have to say. But now they’re up, still works in progress, of course, but you can [...]

New Project—Floppity Flop

At the end of last year I discovered gelatin printmaking through the good graces of wondrous print-maker, Julia Talcott, who gave a relief printmaking class just down the hall from my studio at the art center. I absolutely love the medium. It’s quick and expressive and easy. Well, that’s what I thought.  Last night I [...]

New Year Launched!

It’s a brand new year and we got to celebrate with wonderful friends!  2009 was very hard for so many people around the world.  We are mindful of that, especially having just seen the brilliant film, Up in the Air, in which George Clooney fires people for a living.  There’s something wrong with our current [...]

Two Steps Forward…

I‘ve spent the last week working on new art website which has caused eyes to cross and redden in a fairly unattractive way.  Yesterday I made 5 calls to Technical Support and was very grateful for the patience of a young man named Matt.  But, at the end of the day, all I had was [...]

Doing the New

Ah, the artist’s life—so many challenges and uncertainties!  I had a wonderful chat this morning with two artist friends about just that.  We work away and art always presents us with the brilliant challenge of going where no one else has gone. That’s thrilling but we never know what will happen later. Will we sell [...]

Art Meditations

I’ve been very delinquent about posting.  Sorry.  I’ve been immersed in exploration.  There’s always that fallow time, I find, between big projects when I need to restore myself and clear my mind. It’s often when I just want to play around with art.  For me it can be like meditation—a place to go to where [...]