Cathy Nance is a Texas-based fine artist working in figurative and mixed-media painting, with a studio practice rooted in themes of becoming, inner life, and quiet transformation. Based in Spring, Texas, her work explores the emotional and symbolic landscape of the human experience through layered surfaces, archetypal figures, and a palette influenced by patina, metal, ash, and weathered materials.
With a background in fine art photography, Cathy brings a strong sense of narrative, composition, and atmosphere to her paintings. Her figures and animal forms are not traditional portraits, but symbolic presences, visual companions that reflect states of being, memory, resilience, and tenderness. Process plays a central role in her practice; she often begins with drawing and surface distressing before rebuilding and finishing in oil, allowing each piece to carry visible traces of time, change, and revision.
Cathy has had her work exhibited in Houston-area galleries, including Gallerie Spectra and JoMar Visions. Her photography and artwork have been featured in publications such as Conceptual Magazine, Obscurae Magazine, Inked Magazine, Caelestia Magazine, and AIB Photography Magazine, where she also received the AIB Photographers Daily Choice Award. Through her studio practice and her broader creative work, she continues to develop a body of work centered on presence, reflection, and the lifelong practice of becoming.