Biography

Cathy Mayer Pascoe was inspired and encouraged by her mother, Catherine Mayer, a charter member of PAL (Quayside Art Gallery). Cathy was a teenage helper in the original Gallery located on Palifox Street in Pensacola, Florida, climbing ladders to hang art on brick walls. She was inspired by her then-young sons and their desire to have mommy make a “doggy or kitty, or dragon.”

As a batik artist, she delights in the fun of creating an image buried under layers of wax that are only to be revealed at the end of the batik process of multiple dye baths. Her pieces have a fun character of their own.

Batik is a process of dyeing fabric using wax to create designs as fabric art. The pieces may be worn, displayed under glass, in frames, on sticks, or three-dimensional pieces that are decorative and functional; i.e., pillows, curtains, tables, linen sculptures, mobiles, etc. Like dying Easter eggs, the colors blend and bend to unlimited imagination—think of rainbows!