As the daughter of prominent Canadian sculptor,
Fran Jenkins, Cathryn spent many hours in her mother’s studio
learning about the qualities of different stone
and the relationship between artist and medium
while gaining an understanding of line, form
and the joy of sculpture.
Her own stylized representational forms, influenced
by her mother as well as Inuit and American
sculptors, combine the pleasure of touch and
the appeal of strong line. The skillful union
of these key elements, consistently present
in all of Cathryn’s work, allows the creation
of unmatched, timeless works of art.
The stone selected for Cathryn’s works
is hand quarried in British Columbia. Marble,
alabaster, serpentine and soapstone have individual
qualities unveiled by hammer and chisel, diamond
blades, rasps, files and the artist’s
eye to reveal flowing agility, powerful line
and lustrous natural surface. The work is to
be touched. It’s tactile appeal becomes
a part of the living area for which it is created.
Her sculpture becomes an integral part of it’s
space; a familiar presence to which an understanding
and relationship soon develops.
Cathryn’s
series of sought after wildlife sculptures continue
to hold places of pride among many private and
corporate collections.
Serpentine Stone
A deposit of this very unusual stone in central
British Columbia provides an excellent medium
for sculpting. Millions of years ago deep in
the earth, a mass of peridotite metatmorphasized
into black and blue-grey serpentine with a very
high content of iron-carbonate. Hot fluids invaded
the iron-carbonate serpentine partially altering
it to a golden brown iron rich marble - anchorite
with chorite and talc as the main accessory
minerals. Some of the serpentine was left unchanged.
All of this resulted in stone of black, blue-grey,
gold and splashes of green; sometimes all in
the same piece.
Selected Corporate Collections BC Gas
Midland Walsyn
Sea Trade Shipping
KF Evans Ltd.
Norsat International Inc.
BC Trade and Development Corporation
Selected Gallery Exhibits
Center Street Gallery, Jackson Hole, WY
Whistler Village Art Gallery, Whistler, BC
Scott Gallery, Edmonton, AB
Winchester Gallery, Victoria, BC
The Gallery at Jasper Park Lodge, Jasper, AB
