Katy Cauker
Katy Cauker draws on her observations of the natural world, human relationships, and personal thoughts for her inspiration. She draws, paints, and creates prints in a variety of media often repeating an image in multiple forms, and returning to the same locations and types of images over time. The most dominate images are of tree groves, birds, Southern Oregon wine country, the Oregon coast, and people- real and imagined, in a manner of recognizable intent to abstraction.
Ideas are developed in open ended series over a period of years. The Bird Brain series is based on the idea of the fleeting nature of thoughts. The Woodland pieces focus on the complex, overlapping shapes as an expression of our interdependence on each other and our environment. A third series, Bathers, is based on groups of people in natural settings. It originated from her university studies of Art History, and the Bather paintings that were a consistent theme in European art. Through these subjects she integrates her of love of science with thoughts on our changing climate. During her early hears in Oregon she explored the wilderness areas on foot under the premise of “Leave no trace behind.”
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