Cathi Steer
Cathi was born Catherine Heysen in the South Australian town of Penola.
Growing up on a farm exposed Cathi to the natural world and has been a strong influence on her work, having a love of landscape and animals and the play of light on the subject matter.
Moving up to Adelaide in her late teens introduced more of an interest in figure painting and portraiture.
During her career, traveling has inspired her to broaden her subject matter to painting streetscapes and trying to recapture the experiences of seeing new and different places.
Cathi now lives in Coromandel Valley where she works and displays a large body of her work.