About The Artist
🎨 Catherine Mein — Artist Profile
Catherine Mein is a contemporary American artist with a long artistic career spanning over 40 years. She works in a variety of media and enjoys exploring both abstract and experimental art forms.
🖌️ Background
She was born in Lima, Peru, and moved to the United States as a child, growing up in Maryland.
She has a BA in Fine Arts from the University of Washington and also studied at the Art Institute of Seattle.
Alongside traditional art studies, she studied watercolor painting with a spiritual focus, drawing on principles from the writings of Rudolf Steiner and Goethe, and received a degree in Illuminism.
🎨 Artistic Career
Mein has been active as an artist for over four decades, developing skills in watercolor, acrylics, oil, mixed media, collage, gel printing, pen and ink, drawing, altar making, and more.
She has won nine national awards in The Artist Magazine’s Annual Art Competition specifically in Abstract/Experimental Art.
Her artwork was published in the North Light book Art Journey Abstract Painting… A Celebration of Contemporary Art.
She has shown her work through galleries, including representation at the Koman Fine Art Gallery in Vero Beach, Florida, and she offers artwork for sale.
🏆 Recognition and Press
Her work has been featured in books and collections celebrating abstract art.
She won a Best in Show award at a juried event held by Tidewater Art Alliance, and one of her paintings was displayed in U.S. Senator Mark Warner’s office in Norfolk, Virginia for a year — where she discussed her work with him.
