CATHRYN JENKINS
ELEMENTS IN NATURE CREATING MOVEMENT AND FLIGHT
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culpting came naturally to Cathryn Jenkins, who grew up in the small mountainous town of Revelstoke. In an artistic household, Cathryn remembers her mother, Fran Jenkins, carving small chunks of soapstone in the kitchen. The stone came from the local mountains, prospected and quarried by her mother. Jenkins could not leave the stone and tools alone, and began her career as a sculptor in her early years. As an athletic young person, Cathryn had worked for Glacier National Park, B.C. in the summers, and this added to her firsthand experience with the grizzly bears, and their environment. “My parents loved and collected art, and so did I,” states Cathryn. It was this passion which lead to owning her own gallery between 2000 and 2004 in White Rock B. C. It was there that Cathryn held exhibitions for artists including Jack Shadbolt, Robert Davidson, Norval Morrisseau, and others (artists in attendance). She sold the gallery, in 2004, to focus on her sculpture.
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Major influences in her artistic life are Fran Jenkins, Rosetta, and Sandy Scott. Cathryn’s interest in the American Women Artist group (Rosetta, and Sandy Scott and others) in the early 2000s, brought her to apply to their continental competitions After making her way to be a Signature member, she was invited to be an AWA Master (the most elite category), in 2012. Cathryn has always loved her time in her studio. All her artistic life her mother continued to sculpt and prospect. This put Cathryn in the unusual position of having a great selection of the most beautiful local carving stone. Cathryn focused on larger works, and developed extensive studios in her back yard in Langley, B. C., where she could work seriously, and still be a stay home mom to her two children. Cathryn continued her love of other sculpture throughout decades of work. She has also exhibited in Arizona, New Mexico, Georgia, and Texas, through the AWA, and continued to sell well, which allowed her to take on and complete large projects. www.GoodLifeConnoisseur.com