Nancy Weekly, Theme and Variations:
The Art of Catherine Parker

In Parker’s capable hands, landscape elements--trees, flowers, cliffs, clouds, suns, moons, water and birds--are highly condensed things that suggest a whole imaginative spectrum of shifting and intertwining metaphors. As Parker moves toward greater abstraction, it is a symbolic language that has grown remarkably in its ability to bridge between observed phenomena and the associative power of raw shape.

. . . . she forcefully strikes out into remarkably personal territory where the ordinary becomes the extraordinary and the mundane begins to tremble with odd mystic evocations.
What gives Parker her unique vision is her unobtrusive bridging between what the eye sees and the mind imagines.

Richard Huntington, The Buffalo News