About
About Cat
Hi, my name is Cat and I am the artist behind Cat’s Curiousities.
I create custom artwork that captures personality, emotion, and imagination in every stroke. My style blends bold lines, rich colour, and subtle storytelling to bring your ideas to life.
Whether you’re after a character portrait, a fantasy scene, or something a little strange and wonderful, I’m here to make it real.
Every piece is made with care, whimsy, and a bit of chaos - just how I like it.
I have been a very creative person my whole life with my parents having folders of drawings from the refrigerator that they keep in my memory box. My creative outlet has varied vastly over the years being heavily influenced by my interests at the time. For example, back in 2014, when BBC Sherlock and Doctor Who were in their prime, I put my love of the shows and fandom into my knitting, making several VERY LONG Fourth Doctor scarves for myself and friends, as well as both of John Watson’s jumpers.
I always joke with my friends that I am two parallel universes away from having been a tattoo artist instead of a scrappy mixed industry creator like I am now.
Growing up in a lower-middle class household my sister and I each got to pick one hobby for our parents to invest in classes for. I stuck with highland dancing to honour my Scottish heritage while doing theatre and choir throughout elementary school, while my sister pursued art. That didn’t stop me from ransacking her art supplies when I wanted to try out new mediums.
So even though I decided to pursue vocal music and later musical theatre instead of visual art, creativity and creation still maintained an important role in my life. I continued to be a big doodler, mostly fandom related naturally, in the margins of notebooks with my main outlets being knitting and crafting cosplays. If you check under my bed you’ll find a half-finished Wonder Woman 2016 Godkiller sword and her accompanying shield. In an often heard phrase: “I’ll circle back to it eventually.”
Dungeons and Dragons became a pretty important part of my life back in 2019, which was when I got back into portraiture in order to have visuals of my characters. As a result, my fellow players got plenty of what I would now deem rough art of their characters as I continued to refine my art style.
When I made the move from player to Dungeon Master, map making and props came more into the forefront of my creativity. This would include battle maps for games for kids, “recovered” journal entries for players to read through, and maps of the realm for the table. I love working with fellow DM’s to bring their fantasy world to reality which you can read more about in my blog post “Fantasy Realms on Real Paper”.
Like so many people during the pandemic, spirituality specifically though witchcraft became a comfort. This would shape my art style significantly as astrology, tarot, and spiritual meanings of plants would be incorporated. I completed my first natal chart and analysis for my mother back in 2021, and my understanding of how different aspects interact as well as design alternatives for natal charts have grown significantly. One of the ways I show my love for my friends is by giving them things that I have created because to me that is a wonderful merging of so many of my love languages.
A funny example of this is when I made my friends Ty and Dalton a composite chart as a congratulations for their engagement and when Ty said “Wow that’s so cool I wish I knew how to understand the astrological stuff behind it”, my brain went “You got it!” I then spent over a month creating a MASSIVE document detailing their individual charts, a synastry chart, and a composite chart with analysis which I then handbound for them as a joint birthday present.
As mentioned, my current interests shape my art style and focus quite a bit. My Dungeons and Dragons hobby would lean more into a map making focus, while drawing funny character moments from campaigns, as well as portraiture. Most recently with the Legends Z-A release, I’ve been back on a Pokemon kick, turning my friends into trainers and creating original characters.
I really need to thank my friends and family for all of their support and encouragement in turning what I thought was a fun hobby that I’d use to make people happy, into a business. By which I mean, I got tired of being told “Oh my goodness Cat, you should be selling these” and finally caved.
I hope that my art can bring you as much joy as I experience while I am making it.