Cathy Hegman is contemporary figurative artist from Mississippi, where she maintains a studio in Holly Bluff.Hegman has worked as a full time artist for over 33 years, in addition to teaching workshops and authoring articles for national art magazines. Hegman has maintained professional gallery represention for over 19 years. Hegman shows her work at the national and international levels, and has received awards for her work in the United States, Brazil, and England. Hegman has had numerous solo exhibitions over the past 12 years at various galleries and museums. Professional memberships include Signature Memberships in the American Watercolor Society, the Missouri Watercolor Society, the National Watercolor Society, and the International Society of Acrylic Painters; Dolphin Fellowship in the American Watercolor Society; and memberships in the Mississippi Watercolor Society, the Society of Animal Artists, the Southern Watercolor Society, and American Women Artists. Hegman is also Vice President of the Mississippi Art Colony. "Texture has been a theme in my work often to the detriment of the realism and I am quite fine with that, as realism is not my goal with my work. This new series is all about the layering of patterns to create a new texture. I often think of my emotional baggage as layers of my life that build to reveal who I really am in this world. In my work the refraction of that larger thought is found in this new series which for me touches on something from long ago in my life." "My figures have almost always had a heavy headress to carry, and I have somehow felt it was an apt reflection of how I feel about the emotional struggle of everyday life. The heaviness with which we are tasked to balance our lives each and every moment. Memories have a way of gurgling through the everyday and bubbling up like a spring into our minds."