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Cathera Lane was born in Dallas, Texas on Christmas day, 1959. She studied fashion design and illustration for three years at Skyline High School, in North Dallas, then continued with two more years of fashion design at North Texas University in Denton, Texas. She also took more specialized design courses at SMU in Dallas.

After graduation, Cathera worked for eight years as a fashion designer and illustrator in Dallas. In 1985 she moved to Woodstock, New York where "the artist was brought out in her."

Each experience in her career has enhanced her sensibilities and is reflected in her drawings. From fashion design, Cathera retains a sense of balance. Her images are starkly outlined and shaped androgynously, creating a startlingly futuristic aura. A stint at a Japanese restaurant taught her Origami, the oriental art of paper folding, and inspired her initial drawings. "The Origami gave me a figure I liked-crisp, hard and I made it very dynamic, sensuous, loose," Cathera states.

Her original black and white drawings have changed somewhat with the addition of soft colors-weaving these carefully into the background. Her themes include one person thinking of another, one person comforting another after a tough time, two people relaxing in the evening, figures playing instruments and figures dancing.

Recent exhibits of Cathera's artwork have included Bell Gallery, Te-Ma Gallery, Kingston Framing Center and Gallery, Deming Street Restaurant and Café, New World Restaurant and Art Now, all in Woodstock, New York. In Panama City, Florida she has exhibited at Gallery of Art and Bay Point Interiors, Inc., at the Bay Point Yacht and Country Club. Cathera's recent exhibits in Kingston, New York have included the Kingston Area Library, Avante Hair Salon in the historic Rondout District and the YWCA, Ulster County.

Cathera believes in making her art accessible and affordable to all. She produces not only limited edition posters of her drawings, but places her artwork, as well, on silk-screen T-shirts, coffee mugs and even magnets.

The pleasing symmetries in her work, rendered in shaded pencil with only an occasional, almost incidental splash of color, is directly traceable to her fashion design background.