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These two beauties lived at The Owl Foundation in Vineland and belonged to Rod’s biological mother. In the progress of the portrait Joy learned cat’s don’t blink, much, not like we do, and that is why they can stare at you indefinitely and inscrutably until you get

Joy said “We have a 6 ft. tall carpet-covered tube with holes and platforms in it for our cats to sit on and look out of the windows. It also acts as a scratching pad when they’re tired of using the chairs in the dining room. This is

Blinky and Bluebell are long gone siamese but their stories are remembered often by their placement in the stairwell of Joy’s house.

Painted for Joy’s niece in South Africa who had a penchant for saving feral cats, this funny title was provided by Joy in her writings about this painting. Obviously a beautiful Persian, the fluffy white fur has been rendered with soft and wispy brushstrokes in such a way as

There is not much information on this painting other than to say the painting was a commission for a friend. It is a record rather than a highly detailed photograph and as such it becomes part of the archival record that Joy painted this piece, and people may need to

This is Blinky, one of Joy’s most favourite cats. Joy noted that she used the plant to fill the space and give some balance. It seems that the baseboard, the curve of the carpet and the play of the light are the skillful compositional placements that tie the painting

Joy was a great lover of animals of all kinds. At least part of her day was reserved for making sure that they were all fed, from the tiniest of mice, to the deer, racoons, birds, and others, that visited her back yard. Eventually, after requests to do so from