Bio
Catherine Haley Epstein is an interdisciplinary artist, award-winning author, designer and board-certified, licensed psychotherapist. As an artist she is unconstrained stylistically and explores imagination, curiosity and the unconscious in her work.
Catherine has written an introduction on how to use scent in one’s creative practice, Nose Dive, and has explored the psyche in her work for over 20 years. Catherine has received numerous awards in the arts and writing, where her work has been described as “Neo-Dada”, “provocative” and “disruptive”.
Her book Nose Dive is deemed a must read by indie veteran perfumers and industry experts alike. She was a panelist on the topic of Art, Scent and Design for the inaugural Digital Scent Week in 2020. In 2019 she was invited to speak on a panel about artistic perfumery in the United States at the Esxcence Conference in Milan, Italy. She co-founded the Odorbet, a growing vocabulary for your nose, participated in the Institute of Art & Olfaction’s “Meet a Nose Series” and is the founder of Carnet Labs, a scent products initiative born in her studio. Catherine is a proud member of the Perfumery Code of Ethics.
Catherine has done educational programming around scent and creative thinking at the Portland Art Museum, Public Annex, and NIAD, a provider of services to artists with disabilities. In 2016 she exhibited her experimental fragrance project at the inaugural AIX Scent Fair at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles. She is the recipient of the Perfumed Plume Award in Fragrance Journalism for her writing on the use of scent as an art medium. She conducts workshops on the use of scent in creative practices, and advises companies on scent-related projects.
As an artist she has exhibited throughout the US and has attended residencies at Breadloaf Writers Conference, Vermont Studio Center, the Headlands Center for the Arts, and abroad in Montespertoli, Italy with her mentors Rose Shakinovsky and Claire Gavronsky (Rosenclaire) whom she has been studying with since 1993. She continues to collaborate with artists, museums, education institutions, companies, and writers on unique initiatives that explore intersections between art and other disciplines.
Catherine resides with her family in the Pacific Northwest, and continues a vibrant studio practice alongside a career in psychotherapy.
Available for therapy, creative coaching, olfactory workshops and artist collaborations.