the founder & creative director

Isa Catto is a fine artist, writer, and designer. Isa pulls inspiration from a variety of sources: the cultivated landscape of her high altitude garden, the wilder landscape of her native Colorado Rockies, and the more subterranean territories of mythology, literature, and poetry. These sources are conduits to more universal terrain, where she explores the rigors of loss, belonging, authenticity and connection, all the while examining the arenas of motherhood, sanctuary, and redemption. Her Creative Rummage blog augments this creative process and can be read here.

Left Brain Bio

Isa has spent the last twenty-five years working in watercolor and mixed media, as well as teaching workshops at arts institutions around the country, including Anderson Ranch Arts Center in Snowmass, CO, and the Kohler Arts Center in Sheboygan, Wisconsin. She is represented by Harvey Preston Gallery and Kristy Stubbs Gallery. She also writes a regular column for The Chronicle of Philanthropy and advocates for arts education, social justice, and conservation.  Catto lives outside of Aspen, Colorado, with her husband, the writer Daniel A. Shaw, two children, and various dogs,  on a small farm where she stewards the award-winning Mojo Gardens.

Right Brain Notes

1. I hike the hills at every available opportunity to peer at things. 
2. I carry my sketchbook everywhere.
3. I am a ruthless backgammon player.
4.  I think curiosity is a vital organ.
5. I have a great many ideas and then forget them. 
6. I hate to pack.
7. I would own ten more dogs but want to stay married.
8. I am crazy about Tom Petty.
9. I am always the wrong temperature on airplanes.
10. There are never enough flowers.