Purpose of River Dee Designs
Inspired by legends and lore from the River Dee, we create written
and digital artworks
that comfort and encourage clients where they live and work.
Catharine A Deever
“People will forget . . . what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” Maya Angelou
That is why the purpose of our work is to create written and visual artworks that comfort and encourage clients where they work and live.
Catharine A. Deever formalized her life-long involvement in Visual Arts when she launched her company “River Dee Designs”, January 2018 – and filed for her trademark with the US Patent and Trademark Office.
Born to a Methodist minister and an elementary school teacher, Catharine benefitted by meeting and learning from experts around the world.
At the age 16, Catharine left the US to study for a year as an exchange student in Germany. It was in Germany that she began studying photography.
She returned to America to earn a BA degree in foreign languages and an MA in Communication Arts.
While in college, she worked in the Advertising Dept of Sears in Topeka.
After graduation, she became a teacher, and her career filled with jobs in:
* corporate training and promotional publications as well as other media
* government administration
* non-profit management and advocacy
* directing, filming and editing training films
Now, an author and digital artist, Catharine writes for a variety of publications and creates new images from her own digital photographs and those taken by the talented photographers in her family.
Catharine’s varied written and visual artworks reflect the diversity of cultures in which she’s worked and lived . . . and her drive is solely focused on benefitting the people her artwork serves.