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Bright Ideas and Creative Adventures

Artwork by Kate Cooke Design

If you love colour, pattern and all things decorative then you are in the right place.
Kate is a self-diagnosed pattern obsessive and loves nothing better than to create art inspired by the decorative world around her.  Hunting out beautiful tiles, exotic pots and colourful textiles on her travels and hoarding vintage crockery, object d’art and anything quirky and colourful like a human magpie.
All these things inspire her artwork and give her the reference material for her paint adventures.

China collection owned by Kate Cooke, illustrator and designer

Another obsession is books especially art ones and here she will be sharing with you her latest finds along with art materials, places she’s visited and her latest work.

Kate's studio chat January 2026

Kate's studio chat January 2026

Creative Chat References

Locations

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Campbell and co

Highland clothing shop

Books

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Botanicum

Published by Big Picture Press

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A Garden of Eden

Published by Tashen

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Botanical page 1

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Botanical page 2

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Botanical page 3

Kate's Studio Chat - December 2025

Kate's Studio Chat - December 2025

Creative Chat References

Locations

Ahh Toots Cake Shop in Bristol

Ahh Toots

Amazing cake shop, Bristol

Rova - Creative publication shop in Bristol

Rova

Creative publication shop, Bristol

Hidden Gallery in Clifton

Hidden Gallery

Art gallery, Clifton

Books

Book recommended by Kate Cooke

Folkish

published by Viction:ary

Book recommended by Kate Cooke

Marc Chagall

by Jude Welton, published by Watts

Book recommended by Kate Cooke

Chagall

by Ingo F. Walther and Rainer Metzger, published by Taschen

Book recommended by Kate Cooke

What Colour Is Paradise?

by Marc Chagall, published by Prestel

Artists

Olaf Hajek - Artist

Olaf Hajek

Illustrator

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Contact Kate

Kate is always happy to discuss commissions, collaborations and teaching opportunities, please contact her by email or phone.

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