About

Catherine Darlington is an accomplished artist and professor whose career has spanned creating art, inspiring artists, and teaching the art practice. Her mixed-media work—spanning jewelry and other art forms—draws inspiration from personal stories and lived experiences, transforming them into meaningful pieces that become striking, wearable extensions of life itself.

Her art is a tribute to memory, magic, and love—born from the space between what is remembered and what is lost. Inspired by her mother’s journey through Alzheimer’s, Catherine explores the deep human need to tell our stories, even when words slip away. Her mother existed between two worlds, one foot in the present and the other in a place beyond reach. In that in-between space, Catherine discovered a well of emotions—fragments of the past, echoes of love, and a quiet, unspoken magic—that she now seeks to capture in her art.