Catherine ( Cate) is a native San Franciscan, lifelong artist and supporting member of local art guilds in the areas she has lived on both the east and west coasts and in the eastern Sierra of California. Her BFA in Illustration from the San Francisco Academy of Art has given her many diverse opportunities as a free lance artist, as well as commercial art direction, teaching, book, greeting card illustration, editorial art, cartooning, and theatre set, costume, and prop design. As a fine artist she has continued to to show and receive awards in juried exhibitions. She and her husband and 3 dogs live in Escondido, CA, near to grown children and grandchildren.