Catherine Twomey

Catherine Twomey was born in Michigan, USA; in the heartland of America. She was an undergraduate and graduate degree (MS in Education) in art education. After teaching, she returned to school with great interest in science, medicine and art, then graduated in Biocommunications from the University of Illinois, Chicago, in 1982. Twomey practiced her profession of Medical Illustration beginning in Seattle, WA as a freelance artist. She worked for medical education, pharmaceutical, corporate health and hospital companies. Her early adopter interest in computers led to the formation of her own interactive multi media company, which she then sold to a noted New York City advertising agency. 
After many years of responding to the needs of companies in the medical arena, Twomey moved to the gorgeous landscape of Central Virginia. Her surroundings provoked a strong and intimate response to the landscape, as well as one of her first loves, horses. It is difficult to separate her love of riding from her love of art; or the love of hiking from the need to show it on canvas or using watercolors. In 2010 her newly focused career was rewarded with the prestigious win of the ArtInPlace Mural Contest, ending in her entry being printed on an enormous aluminum panel where thousands of passing people are able to view it daily. In addition, Twomey won a competition of TED (Technology, Education and Design) to display her work on high definition screens at an invitation-only meeting of TEDMED in San Diego, California. Her work continues to evolve, and has been presented at several museums and galleries internationally. The joy of and need for self-expression remains as strong as ever.

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Charlottesville, VA – Catherine Twomey, Board Certified Medical Illustrator and specialist in equine visual content, received the prestigious First Place in Open Illustration award category for the “Da Vinci Horse: Biomechanical Piaffe” illustration. The illustration was created for the cover of the USDF Connection magazine, art directed by editor Jennifer Bryant.

“Da Vinci Horse: Biomechanical Piaffe” was conceived as a visual support for a “Bodies in Motion, Biomechanics of Dressage” article by J. Ashton Moore, USEF “S” judge and member of the USDF Judges Committee. The classical piaffe is shown in the Da Vinci style with an anatomically correct complete skeletal to convey the biomechanical complexity of the movement.

Catherine is an avid horseperson and dressage rider, and has been practicing in medical illustration for over twenty years. Her specialization in equine communications includes a background in dissection and clinical studies, combined with professional research skills. She is a Founding member of the Illustrator’s Partnership of America and is a member of the Association of Medical Illustrators.

Catherine’s illustrations, animations and 3D work have been published worldwide and have garnered numerous awards, including many Awards of Excellence from the RX/Art Directors Club in New York City, the Association of Medical Illustrators and numerous other venues.

For more information about Catherine’s traditional and digital services, visit: www.catherinetwomey.com.

For more information, contact:

Catherine Twomey
Artists Art LLC
Tel: 1-800-910-1890
E-mail: ctwomey@artistsart.com
www.catherinetwomey.com

This year, TEDMED will showcase medical illustrations as a prominent part of our event, which takes place from Oct. 25-28. Conference organizers are delighted to acknowledge the vital role that Medical Illustration has played in the advancement of science, health, and information. Attendees will also appreciate the sheer beauty of your artistry.

TEDMED invites all professional medical illustrators to submit 3-5 jpegs of their best work for consideration. All submissions will be reviewed by an internal jury and curator for the event. Selected pieces, including a credit line recognizing the artist, will be displayed on large HD monitors throughout the event, held at the Hotel del Coronado in San Diego, California. Additionally, selected work may be included in various conference materials such as the program guide, conference signage, etc.

We are looking forward to sharing the best of the best with our elite gathering of health and medical professionals.
TED (Technology Entertainment and Design) is a global set of conferences owned by the private non-profit Sapling Foundation, formed to disseminate "ideas worth spreading".

TED's mission statement begins:
We believe passionately in the power of ideas to change attitudes, lives and ultimately, the world. So we're building here a clearinghouse that offers free knowledge and inspiration from the world's most inspired thinkers, and also a community of curious souls to engage with ideas and each other.[9]
Past presenters include Bill Clinton, Jane Goodall, Malcolm Gladwell, Al Gore, Gordon Brown, Richard Dawkins, Bill Gates, educator Salman Khan, Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, and many Nobel Prize winners.[5] TED's current curator is the British former computer journalist and magazine publisher Chris Anderson.

• TED Conference: invitation to the medical division, TEDMED (Technology, Information & Design) (http://www.ted.com) as a participant, San Diego, California, 2011
• Winner of the 2010 ArtInPlace Mural Competition (http://www.artinplace.org) Charlottesville, Virginia; Barracks Road, Charlottesville, 12 X 24' on Aluminum
• Fellow of the Association of Medical Illustrators (FAMI), 2009
• Exhibition at the William H. Benton Art Museum, Connecticut
• Winner of the American Horse Publications Annual Awards, First Place in Illustration for "Da Vinci Horse"
• Exclusive medical illustrator for Roche Pharmaceuticals interactive multimedia program, OTIS: Organ Transplant Information Systems –Award-winning program distributed worldwide for heart, lungs, liver and additional transplant patient education
• Accepted into League of Milwaukee Artists, 2005, juried
• Founding Member, Illustrators Partnership of America, (Top 100 Illustrators nationally)
• Salon judge and presenter, 2007 Association of Medical Illustrators Meeting, Bozeman, Montana
• 17th Annual International Exhibition of Animals in Art - University of Louisiana Veterinary School, entry juried in - only 85 accepted out of 900 applicants
• American Horse Show Association "Buy" review of The Guide to Equine Electrolytes: What Every Owner and Trainer Should Know
• International Museum of Surgical Science, juried invitational show
• Association of Medical Illustrators, Award of Excellence; Concepts in Biology
• The RX Club/Art Directors Club, NYC, Best of Medical Art, Award of Excellence
• Association of Medical Illustrators, Award of Excellence; Human Anatomy
• Association of Medical Illustrators, Award of Excellence; Biology: Visualizing Life
• The RX Club/Art Directors Club of New York City; Award of Excellence
• Association of Medical Illustrators, Award of Excellence; Human Anatomy and Physiology

Live to create or create to live, either way, it’s a deeply personal journey. As an artist, I reveal that deeply personal expression for all to see; to draw conclusions from, as they will. It’s the inherent drama of this process that pushes me to a distinctive and very satisfying place. Ultimately, I strive to take others to that place along with me.

My paintings move people’s emotions and provoke the release of memories from a positive place and time. The more emotions the better: peaceful, attracted, happy, appreciative, inspired, awed, excited, contemplative, joyful. I want them to feel what I felt in the moment I knew I had to put what I’d seen and felt into paint.

The strength of my vision is paramount. My style reflects a love of strong, clean and bold responses to what I’m painting. I love straightforward and beautifully designed things that work whether there are details or not. The land, light and nature are my stimuli. The path I’m slowly taking is from very simple realism to greater abstraction and freedom.

After a work life spent as a medical artist, illustrating extremely complex processes and things, I have learned to translate details to their essence ¬– their most representative and most basic. It’s one of the most difficult methods I’ve ever used to create. The temptation to overdo is a constant.

My goal is to create works that are “jewels” full of color, light, design and emotion. If every object is a droplet of color, and each color is a facet of jewelry, then I like to thing I’m a jewelry maker. An artisan of the earth’s beauty.

From Sculptures to Murals: ArtInPlace Charlottesville Announces
Barracks Road Mural Winners

An intensive search through hundreds of entries has resulted in two winners of the 2010 - 2012 ArtInPlace competition. The non-profit corporation ArtInPlace under the sponsorship of City Council has established sites around the City of Charlottesville, Virginia to make art accessible to the general public. The two winning entries have been enlarged to 12-foot X 24-foot murals on aluminum and are in place at 2600 Barracks Road, Charlottesville, VA.

ArtinPlace invited visual artists working in 2-D mediums - such as photography or graphic art rendered in a digital format - to submit images of six (6) original works of art for a juried competition associated with the Barracks Road Wall Photomural Project.

Winners of the 2010 - 2012 Barracks Road Exhibit were Catherine Twomey for her oil painting "East Fall Blue Ridge”.
Ms. Twomey is a resident of Earlysville, VA. In addition to fine art oil paintings of landscapes and horses, Catherine is a Board Certified Medical Illustrator and writer.

As described in Ms. Twomey’s Artist Statement:
“It's the layering of the mountains and colors that spoke to me. We stood on one of the overlooks to the east, taking in the folds and bumps of the earth. The Blue Ridge have a look all their own. The sweeping folds. The swaths of maples, birches and red oaks in their pre-winter dance. The intense blues softened by distance. If every object is a droplet of color, and each color is a facet of jewelry, then I like to think I'm a jewelry maker. An artisan of the earth's beauty.”

This year, TEDMED will showcase medical illustrations as a prominent part of our event, which takes place from Oct. 25-28. Conference organizers are delighted to acknowledge the vital role that Medical Illustration has played in the advancement of science, health, and information. Attendees will also appreciate the sheer beauty of your artistry.

TEDMED invites all professional medical illustrators to submit 3-5 jpegs of their best work for consideration. All submissions will be reviewed by an internal jury and curator for the event. Selected pieces, including a credit line recognizing the artist, will be displayed on large HD monitors throughout the event, held at the Hotel del Coronado in San Diego, California. Additionally, selected work may be included in various conference materials such as the program guide, conference signage, etc.

We are looking forward to sharing the best of the best with our elite gathering of health and medical professionals.
TED (Technology Entertainment and Design) is a global set of conferences owned by the private non-profit Sapling Foundation, formed to disseminate "ideas worth spreading".

TED's mission statement begins:
We believe passionately in the power of ideas to change attitudes, lives and ultimately, the world. So we're building here a clearinghouse that offers free knowledge and inspiration from the world's most inspired thinkers, and also a community of curious souls to engage with ideas and each other.[9]
Past presenters include Bill Clinton, Jane Goodall, Malcolm Gladwell, Al Gore, Gordon Brown, Richard Dawkins, Bill Gates, educator Salman Khan, Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, and many Nobel Prize winners.[5] TED's current curator is the British former computer journalist and magazine publisher Chris Anderson.

The Benton’s contribution to the University-wide “Year of Science 2009” celebration is an exhibition that chronicles the history of medical illustration through a selection of prints, drawings, computer graphics and animation from the 16th century to the present. Each piece articulates a unique union of art, anatomy and medicine, the works together reflecting the ways that union has evolved over the centuries and continues to thrive in an era of digital photography and 3-D imaging.

The works in Anatomically Correct come out of a pictorial tradition that was set in motion by the Belgian anatomist Andreas Vesalius (1514–1564). He conducted his dissections firsthand, breaking away from the longstanding authority of classical texts by relying on direct observation. He similarly reformed scientific illustration by insisting upon anatomical accuracy and precision for the plates in his pivotal work, De Humani Corporis Fabrica (On the Fabric of the Human Body) of 1543. These illustrations by the artist John Van Calcar divided the field of scientific illustration into “pre-Vesalian” and “post-Vesalian” periods. With Vesalius’s brilliant integration of image and text, illustration began to serve a crucial function in the communication of scientific information, initiating the role of scientific illustration as a record of the progress of science in general.

Along with Vesalius’s contributions, Anatomically Correct highlights significant post-Vesalian developments that carried his vision into the present. Illustrations from William Hunter’s The Anatomy of the Human Gravid Uterus (1774) played a vital role in establishing obstetrics as a field of medicine rather than a practice of midwives. A major advancement in print technology is represented by color lithography in Jean Marc Bourgery’s Atlas of Anatomy (1831–1854). A shift in the role of illustration from works of art in themselves to didactic tools can be seen in Henry Gray’s Anatomy: Descriptive and Surgical (1858), and the increased role of the computer in contemporary illustration is evidenced in the 3-D animation of the Connecticut-based XVIVO studio.

In a discipline we associate with objectivity and empiricism, the works in the exhibition consistently reveal themselves to be products of their respective social climates. Ideological and social conventions inevitably come through in the illustrations as anatomists and artist catered to their audience’s desire to see the body represented morally, socially, theologically.

Anatomically Correct commemorates the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s birth. The exhibition is particularly relevant to this moment of celebration as a reflection on the advancement in the field of anatomy as a basis for the theory of evolution and as an acknowledgement of the role of art as critical to the way these advancements were visualized.

Exhibition curated by Eve Perry, M.A. candidate, Art History, 2009.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Charlottesville, VA (June 26, 2008) – Catherine Twomey, Board Certified Medical Illustrator and specialist in equine visual content, received the prestigious First Place in Open Illustration award category for the “Da Vinci Horse: Biomechanical Piaffe” illustration. The illustration was created for the September, 2007 cover of the USDF Connection magazine, art directed by editor Jennifer Bryant.

“Da Vinci Horse: Biomechanical Piaffe” was conceived as a visual support for a “Bodies in Motion, Biomechanics of Dressage” article by J. Ashton Moore, USEF “S” judge and member of the USDF Judges Committee. The classical piaffe is shown in the Da Vinci style with an anatomically correct complete skeletal to convey the biomechanical complexity of the movement.

Catherine is an avid horseperson and dressage rider, and has been practicing in medical illustration for over twenty years. Her specialization in equine communications includes a background in dissection and clinical studies, combined with professional research skills. She is a Founding member of the Illustrator’s Partnership of America and is a member of the Association of Medical Illustrators.

Catherine’s illustrations, animations and 3D work have been published worldwide and have garnered numerous awards, including many Awards of Excellence from the RX/Art Directors Club in New York City, the Association of Medical Illustrators and numerous other venues.

For more information about Catherine’s traditional and digital services, visit: www.catherinetwomey.com.

For more information, contact:

Catherine Twomey
Artists Art LLC
Tel: 1-800-910-1890
E-mail: ctwomey@artistsart.com
www.catherinetwomey.com