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Kat Cruickshank
Bio
Kat Cruickshank was born in Pouce Coupé, British Columbia,
raised in Calgary, and educated in Toronto at
the Ontario College of Art. She now lives in Port Alberni
on Vancouver Island where, in addition to her artistic
activity, she worked for several years as a government observer
on commercial fishing vessels. She is an ardent
angler and outdoorswoman.
Working in a variety of techniques
including coloured pencil, watercolour, acrylic, digital
media, and sculpture,
Kat has specialized in fish illustration since 1995. She
is the illustrator of Fishing in Bermuda by Graham Faiella,
published in 2003 by Macmillan. For this book Kat produced
thirty full-page species plates in watercolour, her
largest single body of work to date.
Artist’s Statement
"I have been keenly interested in fish,
and have been drawing and painting them, since childhood.
The fascination
fish have for me, and my focus as a painter, is their almost
infinite colour variations, even within a single species;
and also their unique relationship with light. They thus
present limitless artistic and technical challenges for me.
Recently I have been exploring further beyond the classical
“expository” watercolour illustrations that make up
the majority of my body of work, and experimenting with sculpture
and electroluminescent pieces."
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