Catherine Donaldson is an illustrator and educator working in Abu Dhabi. She won the Benson and Hedges Illustrators Gold awards following her graduation with first class honours, and has worked since in various fields of illustration. This includes advertising, editorial, exhibition design and specialist painting. She also teaches graphics and illustration at college and university level, including as Course Director for the Foundation Graphics degree (Kingston University) and Curriculum manager for more than 900 Creative Arts students (Richmond upon Thames College) 
She has recently completed a Masters degree and her research is centred on reportage and documentary illustration.  
She can drive a tank, a tractor and a JCB, but mostly misses her fiat 500.


Latest news... shortlisted for the Cheltenham Illustration awards 2017, and currently exhibiting at the Wilson Gallery, Cheltenham.


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Clients include:
​The Independent
The Independent on Sunday
The Sunday Telegraph
The Mail on Sunday
You Magazine
The Times Education Supplement
The Times Literary Supplement
Time Out Magazine
City Limits Magazine
Time Out Guides
Blueprint Magazine
Country Homes and Interiors
Parent and Child Magazine
CEO Magazine
Office secretary
The Science Museum
The Museum of Moving Image
The Chelsea Flower Show
The Sultan of Brunei
The National Trust
The Halifax Building Society
L’Oreal
Walls
The Red Carnation Hotel Chain
The Natural History Museum
H.I.T. Publications
The Ski Club of Great Britain
DKT Design group
Channel 4
Tiger Aspect productions
Abu Dhabi Media
The Northumbria Tourist Board