20% off Catmasutra 4 prints!

Get Catmasutra 4 Prints at 20% off from ImageKind
March 1 to 15 2008!
Prices will revert back on March 16th.
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The inspiration…
“It is difficult to obtain the friendship of a cat. It is a philosophical animal…
one that does not place its affections thoughtlessly.”
Theophile Gautier

Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
~Anais Nin

Catmasutra Cloud 9 at cafePress!

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I finally got down to doing something with Catmasutra @ cafePress! I’m only using the painting, “Cloud 9″ for all the different products like mousepads, tile coasters, clocks, tote bags, stickers, buttons, magnets, journals, cards etc. So go take a look and see if anything captures your fancy. I will be launching a full store soon with all the different Catmasutra paintings so look out for it! Here’s a free wallpaper on one of my favorite paintings, Cloud 9, if you haven’t already got it!

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Free wallpaper: 1280 x 1024 | 1280 x 800

“When you realize how perfect everything is,
you will tilt your head back and laugh at the sky“
- Gautama Siddharta.

Catmasutra- Garden of Eden – Painting Exhibition

CATMASUTRA ~ The Garden of Eden
Online gallery :

Opening Reception:
15 February 7pm
@ café domus
124 Owen Road

(off Race Course Road in Little India)
http://www.yebber.com/review/cafe-domus/

Mon-Thurs: 7pm to 12 Mn
Fri, Sat, Eve of Public Holiday:
7pm to 3am
Sun & Weekday Public Holiday: Closed

Paintings will be displayed till 24 February 2008

The garden, as a symbol, has accumulated many meanings in its journey through the ages. If we dig deep enough, we may discover a natural affinity towards a garden and what it essentially means. It is a reflection of nature, albeit a tame and protected version. As only nature knows how, it soothes the soul and perhaps reminds us of a lost paradise, and in particular, the garden in Eden that we have been cast out of! Perhaps it’s about us dreaming to return to the innocence of childhood, away from responsibilities and anxieties of modern life, to an eternal blissful present where everything is provided for, with no sense of time, birth, or death. And this idea of eternal present seems to suit the cat just perfectly, and hence, Catmasutra – The Garden of Eden!

This collection showcases the Catmasutra cat as an embodiment of innocence basking in the dreamy ambience of flowers, butterflies, water snakes, enchanted apples and mysterious cat women (The ‘Eve’s). There is an innocence of time and space that is loosely woven together with symbolic objects to capture the prime center out of which we become aware of our sensibilities. The paintings move us quizzically from Eve as a girl to a woman, the physicality of the cat to the different ‘Eve’s, the water snakes as temptations (“Love and Other Temptations” inspired by Klimt’s Water Snakes), the “Age of Happiness” paired with poppy flowers, innocent desire with sunflowers (“Summer of Desire”), the tick-tock of whisperings in “In-between love” or an enchanted butterfly offering the much maligned apple in the “Apple of my Eye”.

Catmasutra- Garden of Eden

CATMASUTRA ~ The Garden of Eden

14 Feb to 2nd March 2008
@ café domus, 124 Owen Road

Opening on Valentine’s Day, Catmasutra presents Garden of Eden, an exhibition of new works that will leave traces of love, romance, desire, fantasy and temptation in your heart! Garden of Eden beckons us to explore more intimately the different stories we write ourselves in, from falling in love to being alone again, from being down and out to up and coming, from spring to summer, autumn to winter. Life is never as serious as it should be – so take a bite, let yourself fall, indulge, find your favorite piece and say, “Be Mine!” Haha None better than the season of love to own a Catmasutra art piece!

Summer of Desire

“A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing, and the lawn mower is broken.”~James Dent

“Summer of Desire” tells of a time when everything comes naturally like the perfect summer day, where spoilers come as disguises for something better. Haha Can you remember what its like? The freedom that comes as a great big open space, the wind on your face, the smell of freshly cut grass, the open sky with its entourage of puffy cotton balls floating in the sky? And sometimes, you just wonder how you manage to complicate things so much. Maybe all we need to do is stay still for a while, enjoy the breeze, and then continue on our journey…

“…the Indian summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in wealth and depth of tone – but never hustled” – Henry Brooks Adams.

Garden of Eden
“Images are the food of the soul. The reason to paint is to make tasty images for our souls to savor… The ever inexplicable, unresolvable mystery of the image is the source of magic and power in art… Art is not just an exercise in semantics or a tool of social criticism. It is a way to commune with mystery.”~Marion Peck

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CATMASUTRA ~ The Garden of Eden