Kateryna Manko

Kateryna is a professional watercolour illustrator with more than 12 years of experience creating whimsical, colourful artworks.

She is completely devoted to delivering the highest quality product. Every piece is hand-painted using premium art materials on cotton paper, then meticulously edited in Photoshop to achieve the deepest colours and the crispest image She also works on a professionally calibrated screen to ensure the best possible quality when the artwork goes to print.

Kateryna creates in a style she calls Rainbow Folk-Surrealism — born from the combination of two worlds: one grounded in legends and fairy tales, rooted in the past yet ever-growing and transforming into the present and future; and one mysterious, dreamlike, otherworldly, full of undiscovered doors and windows into another dimension — a break from the perpetuity of everyday life. An intertwined world of decorative folk art and surrealism.

Kateryna is ranked among the Top 25 Illustrators on Creativepool, and her recent work includes projects for Eugen Ulmer Publishing and Durham University.

She is open to creating watercolour artworks for licensing and commissions across fashion, publishing, editorial, children's illustration, wall art, and greeting cards.

If you're an art director, publisher, or brand looking for illustration that's genuinely hand-made, one-of-a-kind, and impossible to look away from — on a page, a product, or a screen — I might be exactly what you're looking for.