<h1>Cathy Durso: What sparkles beneath my feet?</h1>September 6, 2025 - September 24, 2025Art Walk and Artist Reception: Saturday September 6, 4-7pmCathy is presenting an exhibition of paintings from her current, ongoing body of work, a series of oil paintings depicting magnified views of the ground. This body of work, painted in rich, bold colors with aesthetically-pleasing compositions, is intended to evoke feelings of wonder and curiosity about the natural world, and a sense of interconnection between all things.These paintings began as a result of her becoming a mother at the same time that COVID-19 was declared a pandemic and the first lockdowns began in the US. Being in isolation for so long with a baby-turned-toddler forced her to spend a lot of time looking down, rather than out at the world around her. This was an extremely difficult time for her, but it had a silver lining: it led her to notice the beauty and magic that had always been present right under her feet. As she began finding bits of time here and there to work in the studio, she started this series of paintings, which helped to pull her out of the deep, dark, insular pit that she had been in.