Acrylic paintings that celebrate the beauty of everyday scenes

Currently living and painting in Wichita, Kansas

Last year we spent some time in Altus, OK, which has "mountains" and cotton. Both found their way into a few of my paintings.
Daily painting, day 4. The painting is 5"x7" and the paper is 9"x12." $95, including US shipping. // This one is a little bit different and a lot-a-bit special. It's my favorite place in the world. // Comment sold and DM me your email to claim. You can frame it with or without white space around the painting. Shown in a @target frame with 8"x10" mat opening. Frame not included. #theexercisepiecesproject
True love. ❤❤❤
SOLD Daily painting, day 3. The painting is 5"x7" and the paper is 9"x12." $95, including US shipping. Comment "sold" and DM me your email to claim. You can frame it with or without white space around the painting. Shown in a @target frame with 8"x10" mat opening. Frame not included. #theexercisepiecesproject
Sold! Thank you, @mehomecollection!
Daily painting, day 2: It's a little aerial! 5"x7," $95, including shipping. Comment "sold" and DM me your email. // Fun fact: Yesterday I learned how to spell "exercise!" Spelling is not my strong suit. I'm always trying to put a "c" after the "x." Anyway, I'm making daily paintings in solidarity with my mom, @gloriafreshley, who has decided to get her rear in gear. It's about habits, developing a practice and finding new ways to achieve your goals. #theexercisepiecesproject
Festival of the Arts, here I come.
Guys, I'm starting a new project. The get straight to it: 5"x7" daily gouache painting on paper. $95 including shipping. Comment "sold" and DM me your email to claim. The long version: My mom (@gloriafreshley) and sister (@magicwoodlandstudio) have recently taken up projects, documented on IG, to promote discipline and help them achieve their goals in art and... excercise!! I am so proud of my mom for making a new commitment to excercise regularly, something she hasn't really done since before I was born (I'm almost 32). I've been bugging her because if you don't have your health, does anything else even matter? No. Anyway, my mom is working on #theexcercisepiecesproject which she details on her site. She's inviting others to join in. More tomorrow!

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Wonderful words from wonderful clients

"It's been a privilege to get to know Catherine & her work over the past year. She nails every detail every time."

"My wife and I have purchased several of her pieces and 2 commissions. All of her work is fantastic and even more vibrant in person. She is extremely responsive, candid, and professional. She and her husband are also very sweet people and a pleasure to be around. The whole package!"

"I can't thank you enough for the painting. I love it so very much -- it makes me feel happy and hopeful every time I look at it."

"The paintings are stunning. We can't stop looking at them. They look different in different lighting, sometimes almost like windows."

"My husband and I grew up coming and going the Enid area and we miss those views that you see and paint. We feel fortunate to have come across you with all your talent for capturing our love of Western Oklahoma."

From vast, clear skies to dramatic cloud formations, Catherine Freshley’s paintings transport the viewer to a place that is familiar and comfortable – even ordinary. Her work attempts to capture and showcase the transcendent beauty in our everyday scenes: back roads and fields and the expansive skies above them. Her work is representative but she omits intricate detail, allowing viewers to layer their own memory and meaning onto her paintings.