{"id":11901,"date":"2018-11-20T15:15:53","date_gmt":"2018-11-20T19:15:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=11901"},"modified":"2018-11-20T15:15:53","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T19:15:53","slug":"episode-296-cathy-b-graham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-296-cathy-b-graham","title":{"rendered":"Episode 296 – Cathy B Graham"},"content":{"rendered":"

Virtual Memories Show 296:
\nCathy B. Graham<\/a><\/p>\n

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“The great thing about being heartbroken is I become very focused on my work.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"\"<\/a>Who starts a career at an age when most people are looking at retirement? Coming off a divorce and a three-decade hiatus from professional life, award-winning illustrator Cathy B. Graham<\/a> is having a second bloom. We sat down to talk about painting, fashion illustration, and floral design, as captured in Second Bloom: Cathy Graham’s Art of the Table<\/a> (Vendome Press). We get into her artistic upbringing, her RISD education alongside Roz Chast<\/a> & Dave Calver<\/a>, the art of entertaining, her love of the Thorne Miniature Rooms<\/a> and their influence on her life, her trepidation about returning to oil painting, the joy of Instagram<\/a>, her New York and how she shifted from SoHo artist to Upper East Side culture maven. Most importantly, we talk about the regeneration and finding your new life. Give it a listen!<\/a> And go buy Second Bloom: Cathy Graham\u2019s Art of the Table<\/a>\"\"!<\/p>\n

“You can’t rewrite the script. You have to go forward.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n