Cathleen (Cathy) Spiegel is a local artist living on Kure Beach for the last 6 years. Cathy has a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Textile Design from the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth.
Currently, she is active member of the Island Arts Council where she has played a key role in gaining local sponsors for Art in the Yard and making connections for setting up popup gallery locations on the island.
Her artistic career started after graduating when she hand painted clothes designed by Jackie McCoy who had her fashions in New York City stores such as Bloomingdale’s and Henri Bendel. Not long after that Cathy moved on and painted murals for the story time rooms in the Worcester Public Library system depicting children’s book characters.
When Cathy married her military husband her life changed they lived all over the United States, a total of 6 years in Germany and had two children. During this time she experienced the diversity and support of the military community and was able to travel and see much of Europe.
This experience with military life broadened her scope of the world and influenced her creativity and outlook on life. While her husband was in the military Cathy worked in the administration of Military Child and Youth Programs where she was able to use her creativity planning programs and events.
Now that Cathy has retired, she does art in several different mediums, drawing, painting watercolors and acrylics , seashell and vintage button designs and refurbishing furniture with hand painted designs to name a few. She is currently concentrating on acrylic paintings and feels that living here at the beach has affected her art to focus on coastal and local subjects.
You can also see her hand painted surfboard “Thursday Nights” that the Courtyard by the Marriott on Carolina Beach purchased, hanging over the front registration desk. Her work can also be found at the Happy Hippie Java Hut in Kure Beach where she sells tile coasters with prints of local watercolor scenes she painted on them and some small prints.
Occasionally Cathy can be found selling her artwork at local craft fairs and at Art in the Yard here on the island. She hopes you enjoy her art pieces as much as she had creating them.
Cathleen (Cathy) Spiegel
Cathy.spiegel1@gmail.com 609-351-4098
Facebook page Creative Creations by Cathy