Painting, Messages, Motivation and the Cat that Made Me Paint 🐱: I went to work on my artroom work space last night, as I have been for the past months, trying to create a pleasant and practical painting area. I had drawn 4 drawings on NYD and thought, 'It's New Year, it's time to get some of my drawings into paint...' I moved a long cabinet with no back on so I could put the back on and use it as a table... For weeks I have been getting a lingering smell in the room, sometime strong, sometimes less so, but couldn't find anything. I thought my nose was just getting more sensitve to smells. 

Turns out our old 20YO cat has reached the time of life when he can't even be bothered telling us when he wants to go outside - he would always let us know - so he's been weeing and pooing on my stored artwork, getting in from the back of the cabinet. I cleaned up the pressies he'd left me, obviously a week or so old (probably for Christmas), so pretty easy, and cleaned the space thoroughly. At 3:00 next morning he woke me banging on the door to my artroom trying to get in. i jumped up out of bed, but he beat me to it: A huge puddle behind the same cabinet and probably on the artwork as well. I thought to myself , 'There seems to be a mesage in this for me...

'Later that morning, when I'd woken up properly, I thought, 'Yes, the message must be: paint a picture of Jayke the Cat before he's no longer here". 

Here is a drawing of him before the painting of him happens.

Jayke, All Knowing. 03-01-18

Ordinary lives, ordinary things - the stuff of life - the cycles, the interconectedness of life on this planet, is the philosophy behind what I try to recreate in my artwork; be they drawings, paintings or other works. Enjoy