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  • PAINTINGS 1
    • Waterfall
    • The Frog Poet
    • Ginkgos & Waxwings
    • Eagle's Pride
    • Spring in Bloom
    • Flower Moon in May
    • Northwest Rain Kosode
    • Snow on the Beach
    • It Only Takes One
    • Scattered Fans
    • White Circle of Silence
    • In the Spirit of Serizawa & Kubota
  • Paintings 2
    • Autumn Introspection
    • Bats' Lunar Playground
    • Foxgloves Reaching for the Sky
    • Plum Tree on a Snowy Night
    • Autumn Moon by the Sea
    • Chickadee in the Snow
    • Down by the Stream on a Lazy Summer's Day
    • Towhee & Currant in Spring
    • Sparrow's Spring
    • Autumn Grasses (Oribe Tribute)
    • A Tribute to Itchiku Kubota: Ozette Sunset
    • Cathedral of the Trees
    • Baillie Scott Trinity
    • Raven's Forest
    • Eagle Embraces Her
  • Paintings 3
    • The Guardian
    • Crows at Sunset
    • Cormorants
    • Skagit Scene
    • Dream Birds
    • Curious Crow
    • Hydrangea's Final Bloom
    • Pine Island
    • The Four Guardians
    • Circle About the Moon
    • Eelgrass Nursery Rhyme
    • Cedar Green Man
    • Serizawa's Kimono
    • Cats United
  • Paintings 4
    • Dance to the Moon
    • As Autumn Approaches
    • Echizen Crows
    • The Spirit of Fallen Camellias
    • Temple Hawk
    • Goldfinch Dream
    • Autumn Carpet
    • An Eala Bahn (The White Swan)
    • Horse Ema
    • Lucia's Maple
    • Eagles Spring Dance
    • Watts Chapel Tribute Memorial
    • Voysey's tree
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    • Paintings 5 >
      • Cedar Waxwing
      • Spotted Towhee
      • Stellar's Jay
      • Evening Grossbeak
      • Red Breasted Nuthatch
      • Black-Capped Chickadee
      • Cardinal
      • Camellias in Bloom Woodblock Print
      • Hot Otter Love
      • č’u•? is Seal
      • Loons & Horses
      • Hawk on a Pine 1
      • Elk Along the South Fork
      • Spirits of Ozette
      • Lingcod Guardian
      • Plum Blossoms in Spring
      • Journey Home From Ozette Island
      • Tsooes Sunset
    • Boxes >
      • Rose Tree Box
      • Celtic Bread Box
      • Creature of the Box
      • Kells Cats Chest
      • Miyamoto's Rice Box
    • Trays >
      • Dragonfly Tray
      • Kaiseki Tray
    • Karakami Square Series >
      • Karakami Square #1: Cherry Tree
    • Screens >
      • Eagles 2-Panel Folding Screen
      • The Four Seasons Screen Series >
        • Winter Screen: Eagle & Pine
        • Fall Screen: Canada Geese & Maples
        • Spring Screen: Cherry Trees & Finches
        • Summer Screen: Swallows & Willow
      • Frog's House Screen
      • Waterfall Screen
    • Peacock Sconces
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  • Night at Marymere Falls
  • Eagle on a Pine
  • Skagit Landscape of the Mind: Full Moon at Midnight
  • Eggplant Harvest
  • Tomatoes & Wisteria Entwined
  • Running the Waves
  • When the Salmon Run
  • Autumn Deer
  • Dunlin Flight
  • The Fox Spirit (kitsune)
  • Crow on a Snowy Branch
  • Skagit Landscape of the Mind V: Winter's Cool
  • Trees IV
Picture
CATS UNITED
ACRYLICS ON RED CEDAR W/RED OAK FRAME
FALL 2014
     This is the third tribute to the cats that were part of our family for so long.  Most of the cats that Leigh & I have lived with have been calicos.  Our first cat was Zia Mia, a female calico born in 1976 at Bill & Kathy Lester’s ranger station home at Lake Ozette.  Zia lived at the Ozette dig site for a few months before we all moved to Seattle, and then eventually to Memphis, TN.  Zia loved watching the birds and made a particular “bird noise” while doing so.  While living in Leigh’s grandma’s house after her passing), we got two new female kittens, Lefty and Little Miss.  They were litter-sisters born to Ma Kitty in the barn behind Mama’s house.  All three of the cats made the western journey with us when we moved to Neah Bay in the summer of 1980.  The next addition to our family was Rosie.  One of Charcoal’s kittens, he was born in the outdoor storage room and became Jessie’s cat.  Eventually we reached five cats when Polly was brought into the house by a workman, thinking she was one of ours that had escaped.  Lefty & Little Miss both passed away due to illness.  After Zia passed away, we got Sassy, a kitten from Katherine Chapman’s Neah Bay home.  Polly developed bone cancer and passed away from it, leading to our getting Calpurnia (Cali).  Rosie passed away leaving us with just the two cats, who made the move with us to La Conner in 2003.  Sassy passed away in 2011 and later that summer we got Mookie from Leigh’s friend D’Ann.  Cali passed away in 2014.  This painting is done in remembrance of all the members of our cat family.  The main influence for this painting comes from The Book of Kells and the amazing illustrations of cats found throughout the great book.  The Celtic Revival entrelac of Archibald Knox also played a large part in inspiring my design.  I made the frame out of red oak using pegged, hand-joined, mortise-and-tenon construction methods.  I used the Japanese technique (shou-sugi-ban) of charring and oiling the oak to finish the frame.

DIMENSIONS:          LENGTH:  18 ½ inches
                                  HEIGHT:   14 3/8 inches


                                                               PRICE $450


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