Catherine Grose

Business card design! Self portrait with swan, daffodils and epic drapery because why not.

Sketch booking. New finished pieces coming soon!

Design for the Reading Poetry Slam Winner’s Book. Simple lines to be laser-cut into a set of wood veneers.

Cara in Old Icinia. Ink and illustration marker.

Inspired by an extract from ‘Atlantis’ by Shane Koyczan:

But if we’re lucky,
Maybe we’re remembered 
Along with the sunken cities of a lost continent. 

This is for each child 
Who is a monument to the one’s who came before.
Maybe the best we can hope for 
Is that those we leave behind find comfort in knowing
That we’re born out of love,
And not science. 

That biology explains the how,
But love explains the why,
So in the event of our deaths
We hereby bequeath all of these words to you. 

And they are only meant to say that 
Uncertainty is something everyone goes through.
And there is not much in the way of proof
But believe me, we loved you. 

We held our breaths for your first step,
Your first word.
We laughed when it finally occurred to you that lemons are sour.

This is for every time 
Love becomes the finest minute in the darkest hour.
This is for those who scour the streets 
Wondering where the wild things went.
For the believers who lent us their madness.
This is for everyone we miss. 

And this is for the children who were lost.
Sadness is nothing more than the cost of being able to smile
Once in a while.
And grief is the trial we stand to offer evidence 
That your finger prints were left on our hearts
And our skin,

And in terms of proof,
Love can be demonstrated in giving.
Our lives consist of the efforts we give 
In swimming towards the lost continent
Where you are rumoured to be living. 

http://indiefeedpp.indiefeed.libsynpro.com/shane-koyczan-atlantis

My art at the launch exhibition for Original Artwork Online at the Turbine House on the riverside in Reading. 

http://www.originalartworkonline.co.uk/

Finished four-wall mural at the Pink Elephant offices in Reading, including various clouds, African sparrows and a sunset. 

Painting time (not including the elephant wall): 42 hours over 6 days.

Acrylic wall mural for the offices of Pink Elephant IT Management in Reading.

Four elephants, trees, savannah, and African black ducks.

approx. 70 hours over 10 days.

 *SOLD* 

“I think everyone has their own Icinia” said Beth. “I think you’ll know it when you find it.”

Cara after she leaves home and gets lost in the New Republic of Icinia.

Ink and illustration marker on board.

0.2 pen, fineliner, illustration marker and white paint pen on paper.