Artful & Literary Excavations of Imagination

Q: Do you have to go to school (college, university, etc) to become an artist or a writer?

A: I’ve spent far too much of my life grappling with whether or not a higher education would help me be a better writer and guarantee success in the publishing world. Straight out of high school, I entered the University of Toronto and chose the most obvious subject to major in for a writer–English Literature. For most, entering into secondary education to study the medium of their choice is a very logical and rewarding experience, and it can lead to opportunities. For me, it was a long hard lesson in learning about myself.

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Late last year I started to re-organize and streamline cathrene.net, based on some ideas of my own and a year’s worth of observations and experiences following the traditional route with blogging and running an online juried art gallery called House of Scratch. To summarize these observations and experiences, if I can’t do cathrene.net my way then there’s just no point in doing it.

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With less than two months away from the opening for House of Scratch presents: Mind Field 2009 Group Exhibition, it was time to sit down and work out which direction my work needed to take to fulfill my sense of joy in making art, explore the fundamental nature of Surrealism, and create artwork  in a more timely fashion.

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This post is a bit late being published, but House of Scratch’s inaugural physical group show is still underway. If you like to look at art and invest in art, there is still time. Below is our official press release. Drop by the Hang Man Gallery and leave a message in our guest book or see it online at House of Scratch and leave a comment. Your feedback is welcome!

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