Catherine "Kater" Cheek is a writer and artist.
Catherine Cheek
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Mar 21
Turquoise Circle Book
The cloth for this book was a piece of indigo batik cloth that I bought in Japan. I had just enough for a baby’s bath yukata, and when my babies grew out of it, I saved the cloth. The transparent rainbow embroidered overlay is something I picked up in the scrap bin at Jo Ann’s, …
Mar 18
Surreal Bird book
This is a book I made for Jeff Vandermeer, one of my Clarion teachers. Like the others, it’s approx. 3″ x 4″x 1/2″. I wanted something a little surreal, a little weird, and the sort of Victorian-era artwork makes it slightly steampunk.   Originally the cover was meant to have a cat’s head on a geisha’s …
Mar 16
Face Fruit Book
This is a book I made for Ann Vandermeer. I knew I was going to see her and wanted to give her a book, so I made something a little weird. The cover is Chinese New Year’s money pasted over a muslin background for strength. I pasted a nearly translucent piece of cotton cloth over …
Mar 15
Fox Tile
I don’t have anything finished right now, so I thought I would post some tiles that I made last year. These are hand made tiles, slip trailed with neutral colored slip from a jacquard bottle. After I bisque fired them, I used the slip trails as a border for the glazes. If I were to do …
Mar 12
Firebird Book
I made this book because I wanted to experiment with leather covers. The leather is a bit thicker than I would have liked (6-7oz) but that thickness is supposed to be superior for tooling. The design is based on one of my favorite fairy tales “Ivan and the Firebird”. On the cover, the firebird is …