A Guide to the Best of Southern California : AT HOME : Madame Butterfly
IN THE MARKET for a Giant Death’s Head roach? A Horned Rhinoceros beetle? Maybe a lavender grasshopper? Cathy Endfield can help.
In film and video circles, she’s known as the butterfly lady. Endfield is a specialist in insect art. Her Sherman Oaks home is crammed with insects--thousands of them, stashed in drawers, mounted and hoarded in bags. Endfield rents her bugs to film studios, special-effects shops, photographers and anyone else with such a hankering.
Recently Endfield supplied insects for “Arachnophobia,” an Amblin-Hollywood Pictures production. But creating art pieces by incorporating these creatures into collages and assemblages is her true avocation. “I’m into insect art,” the butterfly lady says.
For further information, telephone Cathy Endfield; (818) 783-4357.
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