Born and raised in Montreal, Cathy graduated from University in 1986 with a Bachelor in Fine Arts in film and photography from Concordia University.

In 1985, she became involved in the world of publishing and started the alternative newsweekly the Montreal Mirror. She has been in the newspaper, book and magazine publishing business ever since. Her publications include Ici Montreal, The Coast and CoastLife Magazine. In 1998, Cathy sold her Montreal newspapers and gave up her full-time job as publisher. Cathy works part time at The Coast newspaper in Halifax and lives in St Margaret’s Bay, Nova Scotia.

Cathy has been a passionate scuba diver and marine ecologist since 1990. What started as a hobby has become the focal point of her life. In 2000, she made Bonaire, Netherland Antilles her second home where she dives the marine park everyday and has got to know the sea life intimately – this is the primary subject of her photography. She has worked as a volunteer on marine biology projects in Bonaire and Belize and travelled extensively to photograph many of the world’s coral atolls and fringing reefs.

In 2000, she met her diving partner Dominique Sérafini on one of the Caribbean’s most exceptional wrecks, The Windjammer, a steel hulled three-mast clipper, sunk in 1912. Shortly after, she authored with Dominique a book entitled DreamWrecks—The Best Shipwrecks of Aruba, Bonaire & Curacao about the shipwrecks of the region.

In 2006, Cathy hosted a 26-episode television show called Dreamwrecks, about her photographic mission, and Dominique’s painterly mission, to capture the most spectacular shipwrecks of the Caribbean. It is currently airing on Global TV in Canada and VoomHD in the US.

Her photographic shows include:

- "Dreamwrecks", a solo show at Anderson Contemporary Photography Gallery, Lunenburg in September 2007;

- “Magical Encounters—panoramic underwater photography and studies of movement of marine life” a solo show at Cinnamon Art Gallery, Bonaire in January 2005 and February 2006

- “Artificial Reefs” a duo show with Dominique Sérafini shown in 2003 at Curacao Maritime Museum, Willemstad, Curacao and in 2002 at City Cafe, Bonaire, Netherland Antilles.

AQUATICA, the leading manufacturers of underwater camera housing in Canada has supported Cathy’s work over the years, for which she is greatly thankful.