About

CATHERINE HYDE

“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

CATHERINE HYDE is a Cornish Artist, Writer and Award-winning Illustrator. She trained in Fine Art Painting at Central School of Art in London and is currently represented by The Lighthouse Gallery Penzance, Cornwall and Foss Fine Art in Battersea London. This summer she also has work in the newly opened Elementum Gallery in Sherborne, Dorset and The John Noott Gallery in Broadway, Worcestershire.

For the past ten years, her practice has extended into illustration. All four 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 Award (Key Stage 2) for The Princess’ Blankets by Carol Ann Duffy. She has written and illustrated two books of her own: ‘The Star Tree’: published 2016 and now available in paperback (Frances Lincoln) and ‘The Hare and the Moon: a calendar of paintings’ (Zephyr: Head of Zeus) due out October 3rd, 2019.

Alongside her paintings and illustrations, she runs her own greeting cards business producing reproductions of her work and creates fine quality Giclee prints which she sells worldwide.

EXHIBITIONS AND EVENTS 2019

Elementum Gallery, Sherborne

A mixed show at the home of Elementum Journal including original illustrations, paintings and cards by Catherine Hyde

June/July: John Noott Gallery, Worcestershire

A small group of paintings on show for the first time in this established contemporary gallery in the Cotswolds.

26th October: Book launch event for ‘The Hare and the Moon’

Events at Number 7 are famous for their magical atmosphere and warmth. Catherine will be signing copies of her new book ‘The hare and the moon: a calendar of paintings’ and reading the hare’s song by the fire in the afternoon.

Number 7, Dulverton

31st October: Book launch event for ‘The Hare and the Moon’

Join Catherine Hyde at Waterstones Truro at 7pm for an evening of reading the hares song, telling the story of the book’s journey and creating a drawing from her new book ‘The hare and the moon: a book of paintings’

Waterstones, Truro

2 -18 November: Solo Show ‘Inside The Box of Delights’

Catherine Hyde’s solo show this year at The Lighthouse Gallery takes its theme from John Masefield’s classic The Box of Delights and invites you on a journey through the landscape inside the box itself.

For the wolves are running.

Lighthouse Gallery, Penzance

November 22 : Book launch event for ‘The Hare and the Moon: a calendar of paintings’

6.30 for 7pm

Catherine will also be in the gallery on Friday 22 and Saturday 23 as artist in residence. She will be drawing, signing books and reading snippets of the stories. An exhibition of work from The Hare and the Moon, along with other illustrations from her other books including Little Evie, The Star Tree and the Firebird will be on show along with her sketchbooks and notebooks.

Elementum Gallery, Sherborne