Catherine P. O'Neill

Catherine O’Neill began painting nearly 15 years ago, after taking a beginner watercolor class at the Centennial Art Center in Hamburg, NY.  She has won numerous awards in local and national art shows, including two consecutive best of show awards from the North East Watercolor Society International Exhibition and the W. D. Gorman Memorial Award from the American Watercolor Society’s 143rd International Exhibition. She paints a wide variety of subject matter using transparent watercolor, but her favorite images often include Adirondack landscapes and scenes of her family life.  O’Neill is an exhibiting member of the Buffalo Society of Artists and the Buffalo Niagara Arts Association, and holds signature membership in a number of watercolor societies, including the American Watercolor Society, the National Watercolor Society, the Transparent Watercolor Society of America, the North East Watercolor Society, the Rocky Mountain National Watermedia Society, Watercolor West, the Watercolor USA Honor Society, the Pennsylvania Watercolor Society and the Niagara Frontier Watercolor Society.  She has had paintings published in Splash 9, Splash 10 and Splash 11: The Best of Watercolor, North Light Books.  She has written a chapter in the book Watercolor Secrets: An Inside Look at the Techniques of Award-Winning Splash Artists, July 2009.  Her work is featured on the cover and in an article in the Spring 2010 edition of Watercolor Magazine. O’Neill has participated in juried exhibitions across the country, and has had solo exhibitions in Hamburg, Syracuse and Rome, NY.

A native of Rome, NY, O’Neill attended LeMoyne College and SUNY Upstate Medical School in Syracuse, and completed her residency in Internal Medicine in Buffalo, NY. She is currently an Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine at the University of Buffalo, where she teaches and practices medicine. She lives in Hamburg, NY with her husband and four children.