Catherine initially trained as an engineer in the eighties before changing to a career in arts administration. However, her enthusiasm for science combined with the arts has led her back to the craft of jewellery making.
Her work has focussed on fin-de-siecle Vienna, drawing inspiration from the work of the Wiener Werkstätte and the paintings of Gustav Klimt. Natural forms also inspire her, producing pieces impressed with leaf textures, set with dewdrops of rainbow moonstones and aquamarines.