Feline Art - Resources for Artists

Societies and organisations for cat artists

S.O.F.A. The Society of Feline Artists - Cat Paintings and Portraits

The Society of Feline Artists. SOFA - Promoting the work of the finest cat artists.

Cat Artists - Original Feline Artwork

These artists specialize in our favorite feline friends and offer both stock original art and prints as well as commissioned paintings and drawings of your own cat.

Cat art from www.best-cat-art.com

All that is best in cat art, together in one place. Cat paintings, cat prints, cat posters, cat gifts, cat calendars, cat art books.

Feline Artists

Directors Choice Feline Pictures at Llewellyn Alexander

Directors Choice Feline Pictures at the Llewellyn Alexander Gallery - home of the Annual London Exhibition of the Society of Feline Artists

Anne Aggett - member of SOFA and UKCPS

Anne Aggett is a Founder Member and past President of The Society of Feline Artists, Anne works using colour pencil on Canson paper. She specialises in portraying domestic cats.

S.O.F.A. Gallery - Jacqueline .A. Gaylard

Member of The Society of Feline Artists. Her own two cats provide constant inspiration and an infinite supply of poses for her to include in her work.

Martin Dexter - Cats Gallery

Martin Dexter's cats have a very distinctive style

The Painted Cat - Prints, Paintings and Portraits for Cat Lovers

Fabulous, fascinating felines! Fine Art for Cat Lovers. Paintings and prints of cats and dogs from Denise Laurent, a UK based, animal artist.

Gayle Mason Fine Art - Cats, Cats and More Cats

Gayle Mason draws cats in pastel and coloured pencil. Galleries of different breeds of cats. Commissions, original art, limited edition giclee prints and fine art cards

Ditz - illustrating a book of cat tales

A Collection of Cats - A Cat Lover's Anthology by DITZ

Bridgeman Art On Demand - cat paintings by Derold Page

Cat paintings by Derold Page

Bridgeman Art - Jerzy Marek

Born in Poland in 1925, Jerzy Marek served in the British Army in Italy during World War II and came to live in London in 1948. Entirely self taught, he started to paint in oils in 1970. Recently Marek concentrated on close-ups of animals painted from memory.

Pastels and Pencils - Feline Art by Katherine Tyrrell ASGFA

Associate member of the Society of Feline Artists. Gallery includes pieces exhibited at the Annual Exhibition of the Society of Feline Artists (SOFA)

Pastels and Pencils - Catnapping - cat drawings by Katherine Tyrrell ASGFA

All drawings have been done from life, come from various sketchbooks and are of cat-napping - which is my cats' version of 'still life'!

Pat scott cats prints & canvases - Bridgeman Art On Demand

Pat Scott specialises in commissions for flora and fauna. Her original work can be seen in many corporate collections.

artnet | cats on artnet

Cats on Artnet

George Adams Gallery: Joan Brown, Cats & Dogs

George Adams Gallery: Joan Brown, Cats & Dogs

Nicole Jahan - Colored pencils drawings of cats

Nicole Jahan : paintings and drawings of cats

Cat Paintings of Feline Artist Denise Laurent

Beautiful Cat paintings! Beautiful and lifelike paintings of cats from Denise Laurent, a UK based, London artist.

Gallery of Fine Art Giclee Prints - Cat Prints and Beach Scenes By Artist SARA BUTT

Sara is a member of the Society of Feline Artists

Mew Gallery: Cats by Thora Clyne

Mew Gallery: Cats - Paintings and drawings of cats. Commissions welcome.

S.O.F.A. Gallery - Marian Forster

Member of The Society of Feline Artists.
Marian Forster: her stylized Siamese, painted on Indian paper in pen and watercolour, are full of character and wicked humour.

S.O.F.A. Gallery Paul Dyson

Member of The Society of Feline Artists.

S.O.F.A. Gallery - Sarais B . Crawshaw

Member of The Society of Feline Artists.
The grace and beauty of cats of all sizes provides the inspiration for much of my work, whether the powerful big cats, or those who share my home.

Julie Hockin Art

Member of The Society of Feline Artists.
Living and working in inspirational Cornwall, her birthplace, Julie lives along with her beloved ginger moggie Flossie, who has starred many times in her artworks for Hockin and Roberts Ltd.

S.O.F.A. Gallery - Christine Lester

Member of The Society of Feline Artists.

S.O.F.A. Gallery - Marion Pritchard

Member of The Society of Feline Artists.

S.O.F.A. Gallery - Celia Pike

Member of The Society of Feline Artists.
Celia Pike studied at St Martins School of Art and Royal Academy Schools. Her paintings and prints of cats have been reproduced by many art publishers.

S.O.F.A. Gallery - Astrid Ruddick

Member of The Society of Feline Artists. Astrid's detailed paintings are executed in acrylic medium on paper. Many works feature Siamese cats, for which she has a particular passion.

Feline Art exhibitions

blog posts about the annual exhibition of the Society of Feline Artists

Making a Mark: SOFA 2007, the Spring Show and Gayle's new cat

The 2007 exhibition of the Society of Feline Artists runs from 3rd - 22nd September 2007. It typically features 300 original paintings in oil, acrylic, watercolour, pastel and etchings - making it the largest exhibition of cat art in the country.

Making a Mark: 14th Annual Exhibition of the Society of Feline Artists at the Llewellyn Alexander Gallery

The gallery will be exhibiting over 300 oils, acrylics, watercolours, pastels, works in coloured pencil and etchings - with a price range from £80 to £3,000 with the majority of working being under £750

Making a Mark: Gayle Mason SOFA sells before the SOFA Annual Exhibition is even open!

Gayle and I attended the Private View Annual SOFA Exhibition yesterday in which we both have works exhibited. The annual exhibition is always held at the Llewellyn Alexander Gallery opposite the Old Vic Theatre and just across the road from Waterloo Station.

Making a Mark: Exhibition Review: Society of Feline Artists 2009

The annual exhibition is always held at the Llewellyn Alexander Gallery at 124-126 The Cut London SE1 8LN. It's situated right across the road from the Old Vic Theatre and is also just across the road from Waterloo Station. The exhibition continues until Friday 18th September - and the gallery is open until 7.30pm each evening Monday - Saturday.

SOFA Annual Exhibition 2010 - slideshow

A slideshow of the feline art in the Annual Exhibition of the Society of Feline Artists

The London Exhibition 2011 | Society Of Feline Artists

The London show opened it's doors for the private view on a a beautiful sunny day. The show looked wonderful. We had several international visitors who had come to see the exhibition, including people from Finland and Egypt
(Includes pictures of the exhibition)

Blogs by Feline Artists

The Painted Cat - Cats On The Easel

Cats On The Easel is Denise Laurent's blog. It's the space for sketches, paintings in progress, news and events about painting cats.

The S.O.F.A. Blog :: Main Page

The official blog of The Society of Feline Artists (S.O.F.A. to its friends)

Fur in the Paint

Gayle Mason's art Journal reflecting on the struggle to produce animal art, which is both 'up close and personal' and captures the essence of each animal portrayed. It highlights and discusses the development of new work in pencil, pastel and acrylic.

Making A Mark - feline art

This is the link to all blog posts labelled Feline Art on "Making A Mark"

bigcatheads ~ the blog

Bruce Andrew Mckay aka BAM creates big bright fun paintings of cats - and writes about his paintings on his blog.

ARTiculations by C.S. Poppenga

Includes a lot of artwork about cats

Peter Robinson's Cat Paintings

For the past fifteen years, Peter has created his distinctive paintings, many of them of his own cats, Ozone and Jasmine.

Moggy Blog | Cat paintings by Peter Robinson

intricate cat paintings by gordon stewart

Lucky Cat Paintings

My lucky cats are mostly painted in impossible colors.

Heather Mattoon's Hipster Cat Paintings | Bangstyle :: A Global Network Promoting Independent Artists

Am I the only one noticing that cats are uber trending all over the place and taking over the hipster world? Well now you know.

Blogging about Feline Art

Pintings Prints and Stuff: cats in art and a monotype of a cat

Vivien Blackburn provides an overview, on her blog, of different images of the cat in art over the centuries

Making a Mark: How to make it easy for people to link to you - and how to sketch a cat!

Two topics today about how to do things quickly:

1. How to make it easy for people to link to a blog post you've written - and send visitors to your blog
2. How to sketch a cat in 30 seconds

Famous Feline Artists - Louis Wain

Cat artist extraordinaire

Louis Wain - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Louis Wain (1860-1939) was an English artist best known for his drawings, which consistently featured anthropomorphised large-eyed cats and kittens. ...

LOUIS WAIN (1860-1939)

Large range of images from the Chris Beetles Gallery

Neuroscience Art Gallery: Art by Psychotics. Louis Wain

They have been painted by Louis Wain, an European artist in the beginning of this century. Since Wain was young, he used to draw and paint cats for ...

Mind Hacks: The false progression of Louis Wain

The five pictures are by Victorian artist Louis Wain who painted cats through the whole of his life and continued through periods of intense psychosis. ...

Louis Wain Kitten Book

Louis Wain Kitten Book. by Louis Wain n.a.. Rosetta Museum Store! ... her wonderful translation of "Louis Wain Kitten Book" into Italian. ...

Articles about Feline Art

The Guardian - Review: The Cat in Art by Stefano Zuffi | By genre | guardian.co.uk Books

The lion's sneeze
Stefano Zuffi's The Cat in Art looks at how depicting the feline has engrossed artists for millennia. Hooray, says Richard Cork

Famous Feline Artists - Steinlen

Théophile Steinlen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Born in Lausanne, Steinlen studied at the local University before taking a job as a designer trainee at a textile mill in Mulhouse in eastern France. ...

Two Cats, 1894 - Theophile Alexandre Steinlen - Bridgeman Art On ...

Two Cats, 1894 by Theophile Alexandre Steinlen. Fine Art Prints from Bridgeman Art On Demand. Bespoke. Affordable. Quality.

Theophile Alexandre Steinlen Online

Theophile Alexandre Steinlen [Swiss-born French Art Nouveau Painter and Printmaker, 1859-1923] Guide to pictures of works by Theophile Alexandre Steinlen in ...

Theophile Alexandre Steinlen

He was very found of animals, especially cats, and often included them in his posters. Steinlen's cats proved so popular, in fact, that they became a ...

Théophile Alexandre Steinlen (Swiss/French), 1859-1923: Featured ...

Théophile Alexandre Steinlen - Two Cats and Re-Study (Works on Paper (Drawings ... Steinlen loved cats. At the beginning of his career, he drew them, ...

Art History - Feline Artists

Arthur Heyer prints & canvases - Bridgeman Art On Demand

White cats

Tate Collection | Young Woman Holding a Black Cat by Gwen John

Gwen John 1876-1939 © Estate of Gwen John. All Rights Reserved, DACS 2002 Young Woman Holding a Black Cat, circa 1920-5. Oil on canvas

Gwen John - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Gwen John painted many cats - includes a watercolour of a cat

Tate Collection | Cat by Gwen John

Gwen John 1876-1939 © Estate of Gwen John.

Tate Collection | A Sleeping Cat by Joseph Mallord William Turner

Joseph Mallord William Turner - 1775-1851. A Sleeping Cat circa 1796-7
Chalk and watercolour on paper

Tate Collection | Wild Cat by Dame Elisabeth Frink

Dame Elisabeth Frink 1930-1993 © Frink Estate
Wild Cat 1970. Lithograph on paper, image: 519 x 660 mm on paper, print

Tate Collection | Girl and Cat by John Russell

John Russell 1744-1807 Girl and Cat 1791 Pastel on paper support: 587 x 445 mm on paper

Manet - 'Woman with a Cat ('La Femme au chat')'

The sitter is Suzanne Leenhoff, whom Manet married in 1863, but had known since 1849, when she started to give piano lessons to the Manet family. The family cat, Zizi, was drawn many times by the artist, and also appears in watercolour sketches in his letters sent from Bellevue.

National Gallery: Judith Leyster (1609 - 1660) - A Boy and a Girl with a Cat and an Eel

It has recently been suggested that this painting serves as a warning against foolish and mischievous behaviour. The boy has used the small eel to entice the cat into his grasp and then withholds the bait, while the girl teases the cat further by pulling its tail. Judging by its extended claws the cat is about to scratch the boy. The picture thus seems to allude to the Dutch saying: 'He who plays with cats gets scratched', meaning he who looks for trouble will get it. It was common in Dutch 17th-century painting to use children in order to point out the foolish behaviour of adults.

National Gallery: PERRONNEAU, Jean-Baptiste (1715 - 1783) A Girl with a Kitten

The girl, who has not been identified, has been posed by the artist, and the kitten by the girl; the apparent naturalness of the portrait is dependent on artifice. A cat is sometimes included in portraits of children as a symbol of the wildness of nature intruding upon the innocence of childhood.

Drawings and paintings of cats in Museums and Art Galleries

Tate Collection | Young Woman Holding a Black Cat by Gwen John

Estate of Gwen John. All Rights Reserved, DACS 2002 Young Woman Holding a Black Cat
circa 1920-5 Oil on canvas support: 460 x 298 x 17 mm / frame: 695 x 550 x 102 mm painting

Stimulating the eye - images of cats and kittens

The Queen - Rate My Kitten

Rate My Kitten - check out which images of cats and kittens ones people like best and least.

Funny Cat Pictures

Funny Cat Pictures - with Daily Updates of the interwebs best funny cat pictures.

Major national cat societies

Welcome to the UK Cat Fancy

The UK Governing Council of the Cat Fancy founded in 1910. The GCCF is the primary governing body of the Cat Fancy in the United Kingdom
- the feline equivalent of the Kennel Club.

The Cat Fanciers' Association (CFA)

The world's largest registry of pedigree cats.
An informative insight into the world of pedigreed cats - with breeder search, breed profiles, top cat photos, cat show schedule, health articles

Cats Protection

Cats Protection is the UK's leading cat welfare charity, rehoming and reuniting 55,500 cats and kittens every year, through our network of over 250 voluntary-run branches and 29 adoption centres.

Cats Protection - The Cat magazine : About The Cat

The Cat, the official supporter magazine of Cats Protection. Published quarterly, The Cat is packed with news, views and features for those who share our passion for all things feline.

Breed standards

GCCF Amendments to Standard Of Points since 1.6.05

The Governing Council of the Cat Fancy
Amendments to GCCF Standards of Points since 1st June 2005

Major Cat Shows

Places to find your next subject, check out breeds or maybe exhibit

Supreme Cat Show (UK)

Supreme Cat Show. The GCCF Supreme Cat Show - the feline equivalent of Crufts.

National Cat Club

Mr. Harrison-Weir founded the National Cat Club 1887 and was its first President and Show Manager. Then came the very famous artist Louis Wain as President and Show Manager and Judge.

Cat Societies - by breeds

GCCF Affiliated Cat Clubs

A list of GCCF Affiliated Cat Clubs.

British Shorthair Cat Club

British Shorthair Cat Club website, members can list their kittens, studs,with a new 'wanted' page for the special requests. All adverts are free, in addition news of our annual Championship show.

The Balinese & Siamese Cat Club

Established in 1988 for owners and fans of Balinese and Siamese cats

The Club for all siamese cats

The Club was formed in 1901 and celebrated
its centenary on 16th January 2001. There are now many Siamese cat clubs, this is the original one catering exclusively for siamese cats

Colourpointed British Shorthair Cat Club

Established in 1991, the Colourpointed British Shorthair Cat Club is a Breed Club representing the British Shorthair Colourpointed, Chocolate and Lilac Related Series Cat within the UK.

The Bengal Cat Club

The Bengal Cat Club is affiliated to The Governing Council of the Cat Fancy and promotes the welfare and well-being of Bengal Cats in the U.K.

Burmese Cat Club UK

The Burmese Cat Club was formed in 1955 and is one of the largest cat clubs in the UK with a national and international membership. We exist to safeguard the wellbeing and the purity of the breed, and to encourage a wider appreciation of the unique qualities of Burmese cats.

Welcome To Progressive Ragdoll Breed Cat Club

ragdoll kittens, ragdoll breeders, british ragdoll, ragdolls in the uk

Main Coon Breed Society

We are a Club affiliated to the GCCF in the UK. We are dedicated to the standard of points and the welfare of all Maine Coons. Our membership is open to anyone who would like to take part in keeping this breed pure and promoting it to others

The Main Coon cat club

The Club holds various social functions, an annual "virtual" photographic cat show and is heavily involved in the frequent Maine Coon Breed Seminars organised by the GCCF Maine Coon Breed Advisory Committee.

BIRMAN CAT CLUB(United Kingdom)

Founded 1969

The Norwegian Forest Cat Club UK

The Norwegian Forest Cat is truly a natural breed and really does originate from Norway. The exact origins of the Forest Cats will never be precisely established, but one thing is certain: NFCs can be found in Norwegian folklore, where it is said that these cats were the family pets of the Vikings.

Oriental Cat Association - Welcome

Covering a variety of oriental short-hairs

Cat Humour

Sites which give you a reminder of all the reasons we love cats

Guidelines for Cats

Guidelines for Cats - how to live with humans and in their houses - and what to do about doors, chairs, rugs etc

tiddles.co.uk - tim's badly drawn cat web site

badly drawn cats - that's it really

CatStuff: The Mapping of a Cat's Brain

CatStuff: thousands of domestic cat graphics for web sites, a huge library of information about cats, games, much more.