A Pink Cat, 60×80 cm /24×32 in.

Original Acrylic on canvas.

Undoubtedly, artists are fascinated by the sleekest of furry pets. Cats are so enigmatic, poised between the domestic world and their nocturnal realm of wild prowls and hunts. Stef love to paint cats.

Cats were sacred animals and the goddess Bastet was often depicted in cat form, sometimes taking on the war-like aspect of a lioness. Killing a cat was absolutely forbidden and the Greek historian Herodotus reports that, whenever a household cat died, the entire family would mourn and shave their eyebrows.