About
Cathy Eliot is an illustrator and picturebook maker.
She particularly loves nature and helping children understand and manage their emotions through stories.
She uses acryla-gouache, combined with pencil or digital line-work, to create a soft sense of light and the textures of nature. She loves experimenting with new techniques and materials.
CONTACT please email cathy.eliot (at) hotmail.com
or send me a message using the box below!
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Publications
2024 - Biofilia - author & illustrator - published by Storiedichi Edizioni
2014 - A Temporary Refuge - illustrator - published by Patagonia
Competitions / Exhibitions
illustration
2025 - Hamburger Bilderbuchpreis 2025 - Longlisted - Blackberry Season
2025 - dPictus Unpublished Picturebook Showcase - Longlisted - Momo and the Cake
2024 - Microeditoria di Qualità - Menzione Speciale - Biofilia
2022 - dPictus Unpublished Picturebook Showcase 4 - Blackberry Season
2022 - Tindalls - Shortlisted Emerging Artist
2022 - Creative Conscience Awards - Shortlisted - Grow
2022 - World Illustration Awards - Longlisted in Children’s Publishing category - Blackberry Season
2022 - Three paintings selected for the Royal Watercolour Society Exhibition 4 – 20 March 2022 at Bankside Gallery
2022 - Invited to contribute four paintings to Art on a Postcard
2021 - dPictus Unpublished Picturebook Showcase 3 - Longlisted - A Book of Biophilia
2021 - Royal Academy Summer Exhibition - work displayed Gallery III - curated by Yinko Shonibore
EDUCATION
2024 - B1 German - Goethe Institute (self taught)
2019 - 2022, MA Children’s Picturebook Illustration, Cambridge School of Art, Anglia Ruskin
2009 - 2010, MA European Culture & Literature, University of Cambridge
2005 - 2009, BA Italian Language & Literature, University of Edinburgh