Statement
When I paint, I return to my essence. Each session begins with a ritual — an oracle card pull, movement, breath, and music to quiet the noise of the outside world. I allow color to lead me. I surrender control. I let intuition paint the story before I ever know where it’s going. In my studio, time softens. The veil thins. I become a vessel for the unseen — a channel between spirit and matter. I do not paint to perform. I paint to heal. I paint to remember who I am beneath all the doing.
Each painting is a transmission. A Soul Frequency. A portal to the deeper self. What emerges is abstract, emotional, layered — textured with life and vibration. My process is raw and intuitive. Sometimes messy. Always honest. I don’t create with an outcome in mind. I create to be fully present — and from that presence, meaning reveals itself. This is the spiritual and somatic practice I returned to during the pandemic — a time when the world demanded pause and presence. Since then, I’ve cultivated deeper energetic sensitivity, letting each painting be a mirror, a message, and a medicine. My work speaks to the soul because it comes from the soul. I don’t paint to escape life. I paint to feel it — and to offer that feeling to others.
Bio
Cat Gutierrez is a San Francisco-based oil painter, life-coach, and healer who creates high-frequency, intuitive works that serve as portals for personal and collective transformation. Rooted in a deep commitment to process over perfection, Cat’s artistic journey began in high school under the guidance of her beloved teacher Sara Totah, where she first fell in love with oil painting’s richness, depth, and sensual texture. Over the past two decades, Cat has studied at institutions including the San Francisco Art Institute, UC Berkeley, CCA, and Penn Studio School of Art, continuously refining her technique while evolving her energetic and intuitive process. Cat thrives on experimentation. She shifts fluidly between palette knife, brush, and drip methods to evoke different emotional textures and energetic frequencies in her work. Influenced by the atmospheric light of Turner, the color fields of Frankenthaler, and the mystery of Diebenkorn and Mann, she creates paintings that invite the viewer inward — into sensation, memory, and spirit. Her work has been showcased in the de Young Museum student exhibition and her work lives in private and public spaces, including hospitals in San Francisco, CA and Belvedere, WA.
Cat currently lives in San Francisco with her family and paints in her backyard studio, where she continues to explore the union of earth and ether, art and soul.
