Contact - Catriona Phillips

Please get in touch by email for commissions, questions, or just to say hello!
I would love to hear from you.

Email: catriona@catrionaphillips.co.uk

You can also find me on Instagram where I share more illustrations, personal projects, and sketchbook pages.

I've been holding off sharing this drawing on Inst

I've been holding off sharing this drawing on Instagram. But not because I don't like it, actually quite the opposite. I am so proud of it (it might be one of my favourite drawings I've ever done) that I couldn't quite bring myself to offer it up to the Instagram algorithm gods.

Because I know my confidence and creative conviction shouldn't rely on likes and shares, but it's really hard not to take it personally when a post doesn't do 'well' on social media.

But I don't want to turn into some sort of insecure art dragon, sitting on a growing hoard of work that I love. So here you go, from me and the art dragon 🐉🎨

These are the buildings and boats from my Hamburg

These are the buildings and boats from my Hamburg map. I coloured them digitally for some reason, which took me 8x longer than normal painting. Isn't digital supposed to be more efficient? Must practice more.

Anyway, the container ship is unexpectedly my favourite thing (and the less said about the trees the better).

I made a (wildly inaccurate) map and I am very exc

I made a (wildly inaccurate) map and I am very excited about it!!

Fun fact - I lived in Hamburg for a wee while, many moons ago. It's a lovely city full of very good cake and beautiful buildings.

My buildings always turn out a bit squinty, so thi

My buildings always turn out a bit squinty, so this seemed like a good choice of subject 😂

I had the nicest time drawing all the wee columns too - very soothing for the brain.

A pair of long-nosed galaxy-feathered friends. If

A pair of long-nosed galaxy-feathered friends.

If you would like to give these birds a home, they (and lots of other birdy pals) are for sale on my website.

Loosey-goosey bears. I think I really like them, b

Loosey-goosey bears. I think I really like them, but it feels wrong (and maybe lazy?) to leave something looking so untidy? I don't know.

PS I'm the one in the bottom left 💤

Earlier in the summer, I went to visit my parents

Earlier in the summer, I went to visit my parents for the first time in nearly a year (which is far too long to be away when you have parents as nice as mine). Dad welcomed me home with an absolute mountain of baking - sourdough bread, baguettes, little nutty biscuits, two kinds of biscotti (both delicious), tiny orange biscuits filled with nutella, and a three stand plaited loaf with each strand a different flavour. It was so lovely I nearly cried.

If anyone would like to hire me to draw cool old b

If anyone would like to hire me to draw cool old buildings I am 100% available.

This is St Mark's Basilica in Venice, which is one of the most impressive buildings I have ever seen in real life. I visited Venice in my pre-drawing days and would absolutely love to go back there to lounge about in the sun with a sketchbook and an aperol spritz.

Eight years ago I went out for dinner on the night

Eight years ago I went out for dinner on the night of my university graduation. I ate butternut squash ravioli with crispy sage, pecans and butter sauce and it was so good that I still think about often.

I have thought about trying to recreate that dinnet, but I don't think I could ever do it justice and I don't want to taint a perfect, delicious memory.

I spent a LOT of time on this. Maybe too much time

I spent a LOT of time on this. Maybe too much time, because I think it ended up looking a bit stiff. Maybe too much detail packed into too little space?

But I enjoyed drawing it and learned some things along the way, and sometimes that's enough.

Based on an arrangement by the amazing @aullingatelier.