Catarina Mac's Paintings

When I do paintings from old photographs I try to listen to the person in the picture.

I want them to tell me what was important to them, on an archetypal level.  

After I'd finished this painting, I found a Hindu painting of some girls with snakes around their necks. 

I guess that's pretty archetypal.

This was my first painting from an old photograph.

Those are petroglyphs in the background.

I had the feeling he was one of those adventurous "boy amateur scientists", a companion to those "Boy Aviators" novels from a century ago.

Our mobile phones provide us with access to people and situations day and night - all night and all day, every day.

We exchange information on a moment's notice. 

I call this painting 411.

I call this painting “Siesta Angel”... even the angels take an afternoon nap in the desert heat.

Painting of a young American hero standing on a cliff above the waves crashing below.  He's gazing towards his uncertain future with his teddy bear tucked safely under one arm.

This painting was inspired by an old photograph from my collection.  On the back, it was dated "Kansas, 1896".   

There was a storm coming in and all the farm hands were out gathering up the hay for storage.  

Someone had decided to capture this moment in time - now almost 130 years ago.   

Likewise, I wanted to capture her expression admist all of the urgency in the background, as a timeless tribute