2018 Calendar

The last Catherine Hyde 2018 calendars are still available here: The Mistletoe Tree Shop

   

 

   

 

16 New Cards

How times change:

Twenty three years ago when our babies were tiny and all consuming I started to publish my own cards.  I printed small numbers of them straight from the computer and to my surprise they sold.

This week I have had delivery of 18000 cards representing 16 new designs and 2 popular reprints.  My catalogue now lists an amazing total of 63 cards and they sell in shops and galleries across the UK and Ireland and are dipping their toes into the US.

The collection is still growing and can be viewed in The Mistletoe Tree Shop on the website or e-catalogue.

 

 

‘The Twelve Days’ solo show

‘The Twelve Days’ show opens this Saturday 4th November in the new Lighthouse Gallery space.  Chris and Tracey have moved to the shop next door in Causeway Head and have transformed the space with the style and flair as only they can.  It looks beautiful and I can’t wait to see the work up and hanging.

The show comprises of nearly 30 paintings celebrating my love of Cornwall and all things wintery along with lots of new prints and cards.  There are plentiful stocks of the 2018 Calendar and copies of all my books including ‘The Snow Angel’ by Lauren St John.

I will be in the gallery between 2 and 4pm and look forward to seeing everyone who is able to make it there on the day.

 

 

 

‘The Twelve Days’

The Twelve Days’ exhibition has gone live on line – slightly earlier than we anticipated.

Please follow the link to The Lighthouse Gallery website to view the show.

 

October

   “October’s late dawn” is the image for October in my 2017 calendar and both the A3 and A2 prints are available at a reduced price until the end of the month in The Mistletoe Tree Shop  

This months events include:

5th October:  Publication day for The Snow Angel by Lauren St John.  It has been receiving some wonderful reviews and has been Book of the Week in both the Observer and The Times.

7 October:  The North Cornwall Lit Fest reading The Star Tree by me and Little Evie in the Wild Wood by Jackie Morris

12 October:  Demonstrating clay board painting and talking about my work at Dillington House for a Somerset Literacy Network conference.

18th October:  Battersea AAF with Lighthouse Gallery Penzance.

Then Jackie Morris is coming to stay whilst she launches the spell binding “Lost Words” book – a collaboration of immense beauty with Robert Macfarlane.

Around all this I have to finish my solo show ‘The Twelve Days of Nadelik’ for November at The Lighthouse.

At the end of the month there is going to be some secret plotting and hopefully some good scheming.

 

 

 

 

 

‘The Snow Angel’

My advance copy of Lauren St John‘s wonderful story ‘The Snow Angel’ has arrived!
                               
It is a really lovely book to hold in your hands, solid and satisfyingly chunky.  The colour on the cover is just right, the paper matt and pleasing showing all the texture of the paint with very subtle foiling to compliment the copper leaf.  Underneath, the hard cover is a vivid orange that sings wonderfully against the blues and violets of the jacket.  Inside, the paper is a very soft white and the type face is rounded and readable.  At the head of each chapter the little snow fox gallops along with sprinklings of stars and symbols sweeping through the text and my black and white clay board illustrations have been given a softened edge so that they sit quietly on the page, immersed in the story.
To top it all I must confess to having a weakness for ribbon book marks,  to me they give a book a Moleskine, bible like seriousness and The Snow Angel has a  vivid orange one matching the hard cover.
It has been a real joy to work on this book – Head of Zeus and Lauren were keen for me to paint the jacket and interiors as interpretatively as I would one of my own paintings and it was really good to be given that kind of freedom.  Different elements like the shape and warmth of Mount Kenya and the appearance of the bat eared fox on the back were refined with input from Lauren and Jessie Price until the whole thing worked – and I really think it does.
As for the story, I won’t give anything away apart from the fact that I cried when I finished it and believe that everyone should read it.  Although the heroines journey is a tough one  filled with dark and light there is a potent sense of connection with the vastness of Nature and the power of humanity’s hope, endurance and most of all, love to overcome adversity.
‘The Snow Angel’ is due out on October 5th and I will be selling signed copies in The Mistletoe Tree Shop.  Prints of the jacket cover are available now.

New print in the shop

  There is a new print in The Mistletoe Tree Shop:

‘Gold, Frankincense and Myrrh’ is based on a postcard of the mosaics at Ravenna in Italy I was given when I was at Primary School.  I have loved it ever since and always wanted to make an image about it, so finally, 50 years later ..

 

September Offer

  September’s image in my 2017 Calendar is a reproduction of the painting “Moving through the dark orchard”.
When I first left college and moved down to Kent I used to go apple picking in the Autumn  and loved arriving early to the misty orchards with the air full of the scent of apples.  You would often surprise foxes in the dark shadows at that time of day.  I remember it was very hard work climbing up the trees and although you had to be quick to fill the massive apple crates to make any money you also had to be careful – apples should be treated like eggs when you are picking as they bruise so easily and they should be pushed upwards to release them from the tree, never tugged or pulled.
There is something magical and glorious about a fully laden tree, glowing with fruit and smelling apple sweet combined with the peppery scent of bark and leaf.

 

Both the A2 and A3 prints are on offer until the end of September in the shop.

 

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August Offer

The 2017 Calendar image for August is “The flame red moon”  

The Giclee print is on offer in The Mistletoe Tree Shop until the end of the month at A3 size for £60 (from £75) and large format £125 (from £150)

 

 

 

New: 2018 Calendar

2018 Catherine Hyde Calendar

Available now