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.
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, Snow Leopard, Indian Desert Cat (Asian Wildcat).
Click any of the thumbs or >
here < to enter the main frames page
for Colette's 'Encounters' Wild Cat Studies solo exhibition
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 jaguar studies and some of
my earliest paintings of servals.
Index to Colette Cheyne's big cats and other wild cats paintings
and drawings
WILD CATS INDEX
African Lions | Amur Leopard | Amur Tiger
| Asian Wildcat | Bengal Tiger | Caracal
| Cheetah
| Clouded Leopard
Fishing Cat | Golden Tabby White Tiger | Indian
Desert Cat | Jaguar | Lynx | Ocelot | Pallas Cat ( Manul )
Puma | Scottish
Wildcat | Serval | Siberian Tiger | Snow
Leopard | Sumatran Tiger | Wildcat
These are just a few of the 36 species of wild cats big
and small, I hope one day to have drawn or painted them all!
Scottish Wildcat
Limited Edition Prints
30% donated to Scottish Wildcat Association
Signed and Numbered
Edition of 50 on 100% Cotton Rag
