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Dear friends,
Welcome
to the second edition of the Grazia Felina. If somebody forwarded it to
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August is here again. Summer's almost gone. The greens are of the deeper shade, the meadows are full of busy buzzing and heavenly fragrances. Even though the sun has been mostly hiding away from us here in Britain , heavy clouds do form most amazing shapes and at times create most exciting light effects. Also the air is gorgeous after the rain. Still the long awaited sunshine is here now and it lifts up our hearts and delights our beloved felines who are free to roam in the tall grass to their hearts content.
For a lot of cat artists this is a busy month because of the approaching S. O. F. A. annual exhibition . As usual it will take place in Llewellyn Alexander gallery in Waterloo , London in early September. Since I am among the exhibitors this year I have a limited number of the private view invitations just like this one.
If you would like to have one of these please get in touch as soon as possible. There will be a special report from the opening in our Cat Art Garden so please keep looking.
Louis Wain is probably one of the most famous cat artists of the past. His brilliant detailed cartoons depicted cats as humans. He used to take his sketch book to the restaurants and other public places and spy the behaviors of people around him. Later on at his desk they would be transformed into funny lovable cats. Victorians couldn't get enough of them and so can't we. Louis Wain is still a highly collectable artist. Here's the link to my little tribute to him.
Another cat artist whose name I came across recently is Carl Kahler. He used to produce some lovely feline art in the end of the 19 th very popular amongst the American society. Originally from Linz in Austria he was trained in Munich and then in Paris . He traveled all around the world, had apparently a successful and lucrative career but the sea of time has taken him together with millions of others and today his long and eventful life amounts to just a couple of paragraphs on the specialist art collectors website. Nobody knows where and when he died. His trail is lost like the footprints on the sand but he is the lucky one, he is still remembered, his white cats still sit on their soft cushions one hundred years on after his departure. Click here to see examples of Carl Kahler works.
I haven't updated our features for a while but our last feature was of the superb colour pencil artist from France Nicole Jahan. Colour pencil technique is on the rise nowadays with more and more artist turning towards this rewarding sweet medium and Nicole certainly is a fine champion for it . She combines delightful bright colors with the dreamlike fantasy about the cat's world. Her works are light and airy and I could immediately feel their uplifting, inspiring qualities. Hope you will do too.
We've got the winner for our Cat Musing poetry competition. As promised I drew the illustration for the winning piece. Please check them out here.
I wanted to create a set of cat paper doll ever since I started the Cat Art Garden project. I was very keen on paper doll as a child and used to make a lot of them. The most fascinating aspect for me was to send them on the journey through time by drawing historical costumes from the various epochs. That's what I plan to do for my cat paper dolls in the future and in the mean time it's all modern fasion. Please have a look here .
I leave you now with this little charming poetry:A Cat's Prayer Lead me down all the right paths,
Keep me from fleas, bees, and baths.
Let me in should it storm,
Keep me safe, fed, and warm.
Let the sun shine where I lay.
Keep me young so I can play.
And most of all...Bless the people I adore,
And guard me from the dog next door. Lisa Malone, American poet.
Kind
regards,
Your Anna,
Founder of the Cat Art Club.
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