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Catague explains: "I chose watercolor as my medium because it is a versatile technique of expressing my creativity. Watercolor, as a medium for painting, is both challenging and inspirational."
Catague teaches art at the College of Holy Spirit where he has been Area Chairman in Painting since 1989. He started his teaching career at this exclusive school for girls right after graduating cum laude from UE School of Fine Arts in 1969. For a short while (from 1973 - 1975), Catague at the same time taught night classes in painting at the UE.
Unlike oil-on-canvas, for instance, where the linseed oil hardens and remains as part of the visible body of the artist's creation, the water in watercolor evaporates and disappears from the paper. Thus, it is significant-- and witty-- that Catague pays tribute to the memory of the lost water without which the watercolor painting could not have been produced.
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Furthermore, the characteristic qualities, like the transparency and soft glow, of watercolors result from the very action of water while still present on the paper during the art-making process. The water not only serves as a means to suspend and convey the pigment from the tube to the paper, but also acts to modulate the color by spreading out upon the paper's surface. Indeed, during the short time that the water stays on teh paper, it moves as if possessing a life of its own. The water, in a way, is the artist's active partner in the creation of the artwork.
Catague is correct in the technical aspects of water color paintings. Where the dry-brush technique is required for sharp details, where the wet-on wet technique is needed to bring out the transparency of the subject, Catague renders it so-- and with effortless grace and obvious aplomb.
"I believe that anything under the sun has its innate beauty which is invisible to the eyes of a layman but unveiled by the artist. To me, art is sharing with the viewers the vision, expression, ideas, and messages that stimulate the mind," Catague says.
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