Miniature Glorious Cats

Lesley Anne Ivory's artistic training has encompassed studies of illustration, wood engraving, fabric design and printing, all of which have influenced her inimitable paintings, which characteristically feature members of her extensive family of cats posed against colorful often highly textured backgrounds. In recent years, through reproductions as greeting cards, in books and from her successful exhibitions, her cat pictures have acquired a large and devoted international following.In the superb selection of paintings featured in Glorious Cats, she introduces not only her own cats but also rare species. Here are cats in exotic setting from ancient Egyptian t Oriental, lying languidly on sumptuous rugs and quilts, and romping amid fields of spring flowers. Together they exemplify in one definitive collection her consummate skill in depicting cats in their infinite moods.In her introduction, Lesley Anne Ivory explains why she paints cats and how she arrived at her distinctive style, while accompanying the magnificent paintings are selections of prose and poetry in praise of cats by writers ranging from eighteenth-century English poets to J.R.R. Tolkien and from the pens of famous French and American cat lovers.