Hope and Resilience

Acrylic on wood

1"x18" round

2025

ARTIST BIO

As a Latina immigrant from Peru, Rosa Luz Catterall expresses a curiosity to understand people, cultures and community. This led her to pursue careers as a social worker, an art therapist and a self taught artist. Rosa Luz grew up in the U.S. from the age of nine in Queens, New York. She graduated from Queens College with a B.A. in Sociology. Rosa Luz completed her graduate education at N.Y.U. and practices as a bilingual licensed social worker and a registered art therapist. She is an independent contractor for Penn State Hershey Medical Health Center - Briarcrest Eating Disorder Program, Conewago Place Drug and Alcohol Residential Treatment for Men, WellSpan Health and various other local organizations.

Rosa Luz has an art studio/gallery at MarketView Arts where she paints, plans community art projects and coordinates art wellness groups. Her artwork in the community as well as her clinical work focuses on themes that address trauma, cultural diversity, self esteem, and grief, as well as creating safe spaces that promote support, hope and healing. The unique qualities that she brings to her practice help connect with people on a human level.

She has volunteered as an art therapist at York County Prison Women's Wing and participated on mission trips to Guatemala and Ethiopia. She has served as a board member of Creative York. In addition, she is a member of the York County Hispanic Coalition, volunteers in the WellSpan Covid Hope Squad, and volunteered as a Spanish translator at the York County Food Bank.

ARTIST STATEMENT
I believe that we all experience the world in our own unique way. My paintings allow me to go on a journey and recapture experiences through different media. As I cross the bridge between thinking and feeling, I am able to enter a state of existence that revives the place, time, and all my five senses of that moment. I always go back to my reference pictures and sketches, but it is really what is in my heart that gets translated into each of my paintings.
As an immigrant Latino woman whose experience has been about relocating from a small town to a big city and then to a smaller city, I find my themes reflect cultural diversity, movement and growth. I find nature grounds me and helps me move forward in my art. My desire is to connect on a human level with the community. I envision myself growing as a painter and inspiring others to be free and to celebrate their own creativity and identity.

Cada uno de nosotros tenemos una experiencia unica sobre nuestra existencia en este mundo. Mis pinturas me permiten ir en una jornada y captar experiencias usando diferentes medio de arte. El arte me ayuda cruzar el puente entre mis pensamientos y mis emociones. Yo siempro regreso a mis fotos y dibujos como referencia, pero en realidad es lo que esta en mi corazon lo que es transmitido en mi pintura. Como una mujer latina imigrante, crezi mudandome y escondida en mi silencio, yo capto temas que reflejan diversidad cultural, movimiento y desarrollo personal.

Yo encuentro que la naturaleza me ancla/ estabiliza y me ayuda a seguir adelante en mi arte y mi vida. Hay luz en mis pinturas porque capta la esperanza que guia mi vida y mi creatividad. Mi vision es inspirar y celebrar la creatividad e identidad de nuestra comunidad.

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