Catherine Bishop

Written By Angela Hoskins

Global Warming, acrylic on canvas, 76 x 61 cm

Long term artist resident, Catherine Bishop, chose Coochiemudlo Island for its tranquility, all year round swimming and community spirit.

She has trained with multiple artist teachers, taken part in many exhibitions and competitions, winning awards and worked for ten years in a curatorial role with the Australian Pastel Society.

Choosing her media and subjects in response to her mood and feeling on the day, Catherine’s work embraces multiple genres and finds expression in forms ranging from hand painted cards to pastel drawings and larger paintings in acrylic and oils. Water is a recurrent theme and many of her smaller works in particular are drawn directly from her Island life and surrounds.

Catherine’s work has been represented at both Curlew and Ross Street Galleries and she is a regular Sunday stall holder on Artisan Alley.

Angela Hoskins

Built my first site in 2000 and steadily learned what it takes to make websites work. Dabbled in WordPress back then, still do. Since building my first Squarespace site in 2016, I’ve been impressed with the relatively streamlined approach to website design and development that Squarespace offers compared to WordPress. SEO was a major challenge from the start — I’ve spent a lot of time keeping up with what’s required to get sites working, ranking well on a SERP. I have confidence with what Squarespace offers for SEO.

Having worked for more than 10 years in the web team of an inland, regional university in Australia and dealing with frustrations that come with working for a large corporate enterprise, the idea of setting up my own web design business became my goal.

Set up my business in late 2017. Opted for a sea change, too: I now live on Coochiemudlo Island 45 minutes from Brisbane. Love working from home. Love working for small business clients. Still get casual work with the university.

Challenges? The main one is pricing my work for small businesses. Doing quality work, doing the research to be up to date in the industry, takes time; it’s hard to factor in this time to my pricing while being competitive in the market and affordable for many small businesses.

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