Comissions and Publications

 Katty was recently comissioned her to draw a series of London landmarks to be reproduced over 200 times on all the rooms, hallways, and stairwells of Sinclair Beecham's (co - founder of Pret-a-Manger) new  Hotel called The Hoxton in Hoxton Square.  The drawings in each of the bedrooms are about 3 metres long.

She was also commissioned to draw a 13 metre long panoramic drawing of London which has been etched into a glass panel which seperates the reception area from the resteraunt.

'The Hoxton'  opened on the 1st September 2006..check out their website for further details www.thehoxton.com

Brighton Festival Poster Commission 1999

In 1999 Katty was selected to be the Brighton Festival Poster Artist.
At the time Brighton was raising money for the resteraution of the Dome, now a fantastic venue for music and theatre. Katty's work was chosen and her brief was to incorporate the Dome in an aim to raise awareness and funding. This is the finished painting as it was used and a photograph taken of Katty by Roger Bamber for the local Argus newspaper.

Katty McMurray and Steve Bowkett

In 1996 Harper Collins Educational Publishers saw one of Katty's paintings and put her together with the author Steve Bowkett and soon they published 'For a Moon there is a Cloud'.
Katty and Steve have continued working together and have recently had 'If I was a Spider' and 'Dojen the Wanderer' published by The Network Press. Katty and Steve have many more projects in mind and will hopefully be bringing out more books together in the near future. 

Other Books

Katty's illustrations have been widely used and in 1996 she illustrated an anthology of poetry 'School Daze' published by Harper Collins Educational.

Katty's paintings have been used to illustrate various travel related books, 'Ciao Asmara' by Justin Hill published by Time Warner, and 'The Secret Life of Cities' published by Pearson Educational.