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

Award winning artist, poet and photographer Catherine Hyde lives in Helston in Cornwall and works in her ‘studio in the sky’ at the top of her Victorian home. She trained in Fine Art Painting at The Central School of Art in London and is renowned for her symbolic, atmospheric paintings and her poetic books.

Winner of the Holyer an Gof Award for Poetry for The Bee and The Sun (Zephyr) and The English Association Award for The Princess’ Blankets by Carol Ann Duffy (Templar), all of her children’s picture books have been nominated for the prestigious Kate Greenaway Award for Illustration.

She produces hand-printed limited edition giclee reproductions of her paintings and sells these along with cards, books and originals in her online Catherine Hyde Shop.

Her new book ‘Darkling, The Owl’s Song’ (Apollo)due 10th October 2024

The Bee and The Sun: a calendar of paintings (Zephyr) wil

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