About Isa Catto Studio

Isa Catto is an artist and designer who moves between abstraction and representation but is first and foremost informed by color. Isa pulls inspiration from a variety of sources: the cultivated landscape of her high altitude garden, the wilder landscape of her native Colorado Rockies, and the more subterranean of mythology, poetry and literature. Isa has spent the last twenty-five years working in watercolor and mixed media, as well as teaching workshops at art institutions around the country, including Anderson Arts Ranch Center in Snowmass, Colorado, and the Kohler Arts Center in Sheboygan, Wisconsin. Isa lives outside of Aspen, Colorado, with her husband, the writer, Daniel Shaw, two children and various dogs on a small farm where she stewards the award-winning Mojo Gardens. Isa's Right Brain Notes: 1. I hike the hills at every available opportunity to peer at things. 2. I carry my sketchbook everywhere. 3. I am a ruthless backgammon player. 4. I think curiosity is a vital organ. 5. I have a great many ideas and then forget them. 6. I hate to pack. 7. I would own ten more dogs but want to stay married. 8. I try to advocate for arts education, the planet, and social justice. 9. I am always the wrong temperature on airplanes. 10. There are never enough flowers. Read their story