CATHERINE COLSHER American
With a background in graphic art and a career devoted to printmaking and painting, Catherine Colsher has developed a distinctive visual language rooted in detail, atmosphere, and craftsmanship.
Catherine Colsher is an American artist originally from Philadelphia who began her professional creative career in graphic art and advertising. Over time, she shifted her focus to fine arts and printmaking, especially etching and has developed a reputation for finely detailed, hand-colored copperplate etchings as well as original paintings. Her work often reflects a deep appreciation of nature, mood, and atmosphere, conveying serenity and subtle emotional resonance through disciplined technique and expressive composition.
Raised in Philadelphia, Catherine Colsher’s early love for visual art eventually led her from a career in advertising graphics to becoming a dedicated artist working in etching, watercolor, oil, and acrylic. She embraces a traditional approach to etching — a meticulous, multi-step copperplate process — and supplements this with painting to explore color, light, and mood more fluidly. Her artistic output tends to draw on natural subject matter: landscapes, trees, water, skies, and other elements of nature, often blending realistic detail with a quiet atmosphere and emotional subtlety.
Catherine Colsher maintains a studio-led practice under the banner StudioCC, producing limited-edition prints, hand-colored etchings, and original paintings. Her artistic philosophy emphasizes patience and precision — especially in the etching process — while also welcoming the immediacy and freedom of painting with oils, watercolors or acrylics. By toggling between the disciplined structure of printmaking and the more spontaneous worlds of painting, she creates work that balances technical mastery with emotional expression, offering a contemplative, nature-inspired body of art.