About The Artist

About The Artist

 

As a third-generation artist, Cathie A. Tyler has always had painting in her life.  In her formative years, she lived with her mother Lillian in Colorado Springs at her grandmother’s, Lulu McLean, who was an active landscape painter there from the 1930s through the early 60s.  Lilian learned the rudiments of oil painting from Lulu and continued to paint after the family moved to El Paso and later to Paris, Texas.  Her paintings were exhibited at The McNay and Little Rock Art Museums.

In addition to the family tradition of painting, the natural environment has always been a second background for Tyler’s life and work.  Over the years, the mountains and plains of Colorado, the desert and mountains of El Paso, the prairies around Denton, and the rolling hills, fields and hardwood forests of Paris, Texas, have served to inspire her drawings and paintings. Her current studio is in Mason, Texas, in the heart of the Hill Country.

Ms. Tyler’s work has been shown in invitational, juried competitions, and solo exhibitions in museums and galleries in Texas and other states. Her work is in private, corporate, and educational collections.

Selected Professional Exhibitions

2024 Lone Star Horizons: Texas Landscapes Past, Present, and Future, San Antonio Art League Museum
24^th Stars of Texas Art Juried Art Exhibit, T. The Arts Council of Brownwood, TX.  Kohler Oil Medium Award
2023 23rd Stars of Texas Art Exhibit, The Arts Council of Brownwood, Brownwood, TX
2020 22nd Stars of Texas Juried Art Exhibit. The Arts Council of Brownwood, TX
Sally and Robert Porter Oil Medium Award.
Center for Contemporary Arts National Juried Competition (CCAN) Abilene, TX
2018 20th Stars of Texas Juried Art Exhibit. The Arts Council of Brownwood, TX
Honorable Mention Award
2015 Western Regional Exhibition, Oil Painters of America, Steamboat Springs, CO
2014 Guest Artist, Ponderings Revisited, Department of Music, University of New
Mexico, Las Cruces.  Exhibition was paired with live performance of “Ponderings,” an original suite of compositions by Dr. Lon Chaffin, based on paintings by the artist.
16th Annual Stars of Texas Juried Art Exhibit, The Arts Council of Brownwood, TX
Awards received: The Rufus F. Stanley Memorial Watercolor Prize Award
2013 Fifteenth Annual Stars of Texas Juried Art Exhibit, Brownwood, TX
Honorable Mention and First Place, Watercolor. First Place in Paint-off.
28th Texas Neighbors Regional Art Exhibition, Irving Arts Center, Irving, TX
2012 Celebrate Texas Art 2012, Assistance League of Houston, Texas
2011 Oak Park Art League, Carriage House Gallery National Exhibition, Oak Park, IL
Alexandria Museum of Art’s 24th September Competition Exhibition, Second Place Award.  Alexandria, LA
Texas Biennale 2011. Women and Their Work Gallery, Austin, TX
Hunting Art Prize, Finalist, Houston, TX
2010 46th Annual Delta Exhibition, Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR
TX/OK Exhibition, Wichita Falls Museum of Art, Wichita Falls, TX
2009 24th International Competition and Exhibition.  University of Texas, Tyler, TX  Purchase Award
Guest Artist: Water’s Edge, Exhibition of Paintings.  Department of Art, Temple College, Belton, TX
1992  The Distaff Side, Invitational, Hooks-Epstein Galleries, Houston, TX
Cathie Tyler: Paintings on Unstretched Canvas, San Angelo Museum of Fine Art,
Vista Series: Co-sponsored by Texas Commission for the Arts, San Angelo, TX
1991  Shadow Images, Invitational, Hooks-Epstein Galleries, Houston, TX
1989  Another Reality: The Magical, The Mystical, and The Transmuted. Invitational, Hooks-Epstein Galleries, Houston, TX.  The exhibition traveled to the McNay Museum and Little Rock Fine Arts Center
1988 Boundaries, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Sweetbriar, VA