About

I trained at Goldsmiths and have been working in the Art Department ever since I left Kingston Art School.

Growing up off the Portobello Rd ,I developed a long standing love of markets .My Mother had a house in North Wales where we would frequent the cattle Auctions, picking up furniture and dragging bedsteads out of streams . The juxtaposition of Urban City and Wild Welsh hills has always stayed with me.

To stay near the drama of the auctions I bought a house in SE London within spitting distance of an Auction House; much to my husband's distress, because he knows when I volunteer to pick up the Sunday papers I'll often return lugging some 8’ bookcase up the hill. I can sniff a market or junk shop out pretty much wherever I land in the world.

Worked as an Art Director on Mrs.Brown, Spitting Image and Bertie and Elizabeth,  designing Modern Dance for Wayne Mcgregor , Miranda Pennel and Scottish Opera. I was lucky enough to work with the Designer Janet Patterson on Come in Spinner, Last Days of Chez Nous , Portrait of a Lady and Bright Star.

In 2014 I was the set decorator on the film Mr. Holmes with Ian McKellen designed by Martin Childs.

Stint in Iceland to create a fictious town in Alaska for True Detective Night Country.

Working with the Designer Suzie Davies, on Mike Leigh's Film Mr.Turner was a fantastic creative collaboration. We have continued to work together on The Zoo Keeper's Wife ,Chesil Beach , Peterloo , The Courier ,The Electric Life of Louis Wain ,Life After Life ,Saltburn and Mike Leigh’s film Hard Truths,Grief is the Thing with Feathers and Emerald Fennell’s latest film Wuthering Heights.

" In the way that Hamilton on Broadway and Bridgerton for Netflix or Armando Ianucci's movie The Personal History of David Copperfield makes us see history in a hip,  modern light, so too does Historic Style. In the bold colors of the founders' great houses -- made with creative liberty -- we find that anyone can relate through design. In a personal style our homes are a holograph in which we can try on other epochs, cultures and archetypes. Historic Style makes everything open to us, and also honors the hidden co-creators who have been left out of the story," says Katillac.