Librae south (weight of direction)
2016-2021
Stoneware and pit-fired ceramic with mixed media
45 x 30 x 16”
Available
The inward journey (where no one knows an oar)
2020-2021
Cold finish bronze on earthenware with oar and rope
82.5 x 15 x 13”
Available
Voyage totem (layered psyche)
2019-2021
Stain on canvas with branches and found objects
72 x 28 x 6”
Available
Infinite wave (prophet of the swells)
2020-2021
Stain on earthenware with found object
43 x 11 x 19”
Available
Seer of the vast open (inner realm)
2020-2021
Chalk pastel, charcoal and ink on paper
20 x 16 x 1.5”
Available
Navigating the deep pelagic (map of duration)
2021
Paint and charcoal on rusted metal
42 x 42 x 1”
Available
Angel of the west (guide of the setting sun)
2020-2021
Chalk pastel and charcoal on paper
30 x 22 x 1.5”
Available
NSEW (lost compass of the soul)
2020-2021
Stain and glaze on earthenware
19 x 30 x 28”
Available
Liminal gateway (deep time)
2021
Pastel and charcoal on paper
22 x 30 x 1.5”
Available
Miracle of the catch (sands of time)
2019-2021
Mixed Media
Available
Building a mystery (home)
2020
Chalk pastel, charcoal and ink on paper
16 x 20 x 1.5”
Available
Pinion I (shadowed bough)
2020
Chalk pastel, charcoal and ink on paper
16 x 20 x 1.5”
Available
Descent (far from shore)
2007-2021
Stoneware with stains and found object
24 x 21 x 7”
Available
Last sojourn (facing into the south)
2020-2021
Cold finish bronze on earthenware with branches and rope
36 x 78 x 23”
Available
Where does the wind come from (rebirth)
2020-2021
Stain and glaze on earthenware with finch nest
20.5 x 17 x 15”
Ascending pathways (of tomorrows)
2020-2021
Stain on earthenware with curly willow, twine and nest
20.5 x 17 x 15”
Available
Muse of the mist (dream figure)
2020-2021
Chalk pastel and charcoal on paper
30 x 22 x 1.5”
Available
Remains of the ancient way (seabed memory)
2020-2021
Stain and glaze on earthenware
9.5 x 64 x 10”
Available
Shared passage (drifting along the invisible current)
2020-2021
Stain and glaze on earthenware with nests
23 x 33 x 10”
Available
Hearing the call to leave (hovering)
2020-2021
Chalk pastel and charcoal on paper
30 x 22 x 1.5”
Available
Silent viewing (eddy of mossy dreams)
2020-2021
Stain and glaze on earthenware
19 x 12 x 7”
Available
Foam flecked (looking towards the deep)
2020-2021
Stain and glaze on earthenware
23.5 x 10 x 9”
Available
Pinion II (threaded bough)
2020
Chalk pastel, charcoal and ink on paper
16 x 20 x 1.5”
Available
Navigating the deep pelagic
The Progress Gallery, 2021
“Catling’s wonderfully down-to-earth works expand our capacity to understand that our bodies are vehicles for understanding—not merely tools for physical transport, but occasions for journeys that take us far beyond the literal distances we actually travel, into dimensions commonly referred to as internal, subjective, poetic, existential, or spiritual.”
- Los Angeles Art Critic-David Pagel
This body of work explores how the horizontal and vertical interact; as they relate to birth and death, the spiritual and the physical, water and vapor, matter and spirit.
The boat forms hover in the horizontal liminal space between the fluidity of liquid and the intangibility of air; functioning as a kind of container for the human spirit.
These forms reflect the interior space humans occupy at the soul level, the deepest part of the self.
The works exist as a way of seeing in association with the power of memory, suffering and hope.
The boat forms and the nests are symbolic of an internal journey, of silent prayer, of transitional spaces; quietly impacting the area around them or the viewer who comes close.
The usage of clay reinforces a connection to the earth and the way we are rooted to the land while the vessel forms create a way of navigating deep waters.
As a whole, the work creates a type of mapping where there are no landmarks, no place to anchor, and no way to know the way, without an upward gaze into the heavens.