About
Catherine Hyde
Helston, Cornwall
‘She is, if you will, a visual poet weaving images, symbols and archetypes into paintings that resonate in the subconscious and linger there like half-remembered dreams or the dark fairy stories with which she has such affiliation’. Pip Palmer, Galleries Magazine
Artist and award-winning illustrator Catherine Hyde trained in Fine Art Painting at Central School of Art in London. She is renowned for her atmospheric and symbolic work and exhibits and sells her paintings and prints in galleries across the UK and America.
All of her picture books have been nominated for the prestigious Kate Greenaway Award and she was the winner of The English Association Best Illustrated Book (Key stage 2) for The Princess’ Blankets by Carol Ann Duffy.
Catherine is represented in Cornwall by The Lighthouse Gallery, Penzance, and in London by Foss Fine Art, Battersea.
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‘My paintings strive to create an atmosphere that touches upon the liminal, evoking visceral sensations of being the watcher in the landscape, witness to the wild movements of birds and animals.’
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b: 28 May 1960
BA (Hons) Fine art painting Central School of Art, London
Foundation studies Medway College of Design, Kent
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MIXED AND SOLO SHOWS
Ainscough Contemporary London
Beaux Art Bath
Foss Fine Art London
Lighthouse Gallery Cornwall
Mall Galleries London
Lemon Street Gallery Truro
Iona House Gallery Woodstock
Charleston Farmhouse Sussex
Elementum Gallery, Sherborne
John Noott Gallery, Broadway
The Yew Tree Gallery Morvah Cornwall
The Illustration Gallery London
Falmouth Art Gallery
Towner Gallery Eastbourne
Twenty Twenty Gallery, Much Wenlock
BOOKS
The Bee and The Sun: a calendar of paintings by Catherine Hyde: Zephyr (November 2021)
‘My deep love for the cycles
of the seasons inspires all
my paintings and I wanted
to create a joyous calendar
celebrating the profound
importance of the bee as a
pollinator in our world’
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The Hare and the Moon: a calendar of paintings by Catherine Hyde: Zephyr
Editions 1 – 5: Elementum Journal
The Snow Angel by Lauren St John: Zephyr
The Star Tree by Catherine Hyde: Frances Lincoln
Shortlisted for the 2017 Cambridgeshire Children’s Picture Book Award
Nominated for The Kate Greenaway Award
Little Evie in the Wild Wood by Jackie Morris: Frances Lincoln
Nominated for the Kate Greenaway Award
Firebird by Saviour Pirrotta: Templar Publishing
Awarded an Aesop Accolade by the American Folklore Society
Nominated for the Kate Greenaway Award
The Princess’s Blankets by Carol Ann Duffy: Templar Publishing
Winner of the English Association Best Illustrated book Key Stage 2
Nominated for UKLA and The Kate Greenaway Award
Studio shots by kind permission of Jay Armstrong Photography
