As an artist painting a variety of wildlife subjects from birds to
small mammals to the great cats, I would have to say that felines are my favourite subject
to paint, and usually still the most challenging! Perhaps that's because I know
them better than my other animal subjects. Degas said painting is easy when you
don't know how, and certainly for me painting hasn't got much easier and the better
I understand wild cats, each species' unique characteristics and each cat's individuality and
sameness, not to mention the obvious and inevitable comparisons with their domestic
cousins, the more difficult it is to portray these cats just as I mean to - to 'get it
right',
to paraphrase another great artist.
Many wild cats were not included in this exhibition; some I've painted
before or since and will paint again - many more still are yet to have their portraits
painted... Presently in the studio in varying degrees of completion are studies of
the Amur or Siberian Tiger and another Sumatran Tiger painting, the unique Pallas Cat or
Manul, Fishing Cat, Ocelot, Amur Leopard and Indian Desert Cat.
Scottish Wildcat
Limited Edition Prints
For more big cats paintings and other wild cat studies, see latest
works and available originals under the mammals
heading for snow leopard, amur (siberian) leopard, sumatran tiger and African lion, also
the drawings
page if you are interested in seeing a few study sketches. Also under recent
works and earlier works you can view some of the
wild cats paintings previously sold including a couple of small jaguar studies and some of
my earliest paintings of servals.
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