About The Artist

About The Artist

Cathie Tyler’s new paintings are intimate portraits of Mason and the surrounding Hill Country in Texas.  Her close examination of the often-overlooked details of light, line and color in the natural environment share the same dedication to “seeing” with her Water’s Edge series inspired by the woodlands surrounding Paris, Texas.

As a third-generation artist, Cathie Tyler grew up surrounded by art.  Her grandmother, Lulu McLean, and mother, Lillian Tyler, were serious and dedicated artists.  In addition to the family tradition of painting the natural environment has always been a background for Tyler’s life and work.

She received degrees (BA, MFA) from the University of North Texas in Denton.  After teaching for Denton ISD and part-time at the University, she moved to Paris, Texas where she taught art at Paris Junior College full-time and eventually administered the Fine Arts Division.

The artist’s work has been exhibited in invitational, juried competitions and solo exhibitions in museums and galleries in Texas and many 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