A watercolor painting of a landscape with a cloudy sky, distant mountains, and a foreground with green bushes and a red-brown field. The date June 20, 2024, is written at the top left, and notes at the bottom indicate the view is from the meadow at Boverwood in Lexington, VA, on June 20, 2024.

Catherine Champion

 Naturalist Watercolor Art

Watercolor artist of birds, plants, fungi, and other natural wonders.

Sketchbook and studio.

Watercolor painting of two American Crows perched on a branch with green maple leaves.

Featured Work

Summer Grackles in Sycamore Leaves, watercolor, 14x10”, 2025

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Watercolor painting of a white-throated sparrow perched on a branch surrounded by autumn leaves, with handwritten labels 'American beech' and 'White-throated sparrow'.
Watercolor painting of three mushrooms growing on a piece of weathered wood with green foliage in the background.
A watercolor painting of a small waterfall flowing into a clear, shallow pool surrounded by rocks, with lush green trees and foliage in the background.
Watercolor painting of two birds, labeled as hooded warbler and Canada warbler, perched on a branch with green leaves and pink flowering raspberry, signed Sherandoah National Park.

Paintings from my watercolor sketchbooks.