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Catherine Lindow
Contact: [email protected]
Local authority: Fife
Languages: English
Author type: View all authors with author type:Illustrator
I’m a freelance illustrator and experienced workshop leader. I also work part time in a library. My favourite sessions are highly interactive - I love hearing the voices of participants and building a narrative together.
I’m very comfortable in an early years setting where we can add movement and singing to drawing activities. For older age groups I’ll happily bring new materials and resources into play - I have printed with cheese and inspired character design with smells-in-a-jar. I've loved working with children who have additional support needs in workshops that bring stories off the page, driving tractors along a dough road as we tell their stories.
I’m very comfortable in an early years setting where we can add movement and singing to drawing activities. For older age groups I’ll happily bring new materials and resources into play - I have printed with cheese and inspired character design with smells-in-a-jar. I've loved working with children who have additional support needs in workshops that bring stories off the page, driving tractors along a dough road as we tell their stories.
I'm passionate about using art as a communication tool. I aim to sit smartly on the line between what words and pictures can bring to the feast. Both support literacy and facilitate storytelling. Both make great tools for discussion. Both can ask and answer questions.
Topics around family, community, self-expression and self-care, memoir and our place in the world are a good match but I am endlessly adaptable. I am very interested in communities and the places that matter to us, and have loved working on murals and narrative mapmaking projects. I also love drawing outdoors. Please get in touch if you would like to build some stories together!