In 2013, following my involvement in the Meow exhibition, I was interviewed by a journalist from Le Vif l’Express, one of the major French language national paper in Belgium (a bit like the Observer here) about the place of cats in art and specifically album covers […]
Why Louis Wain? Well, his work has seeped so deep into my brain for so long that we’re not talking debt of gratitude here, but stalking ambitions. Not that there’s any way in illustration heaven that I’d be be fit to clean his many cats’ […]
So many reasons to continue the cat covers with Nick Cave – the red white and black cover, the germanic influence, trying to score tickets last year and failing twice, then winning entry to an exclusive gig at Koko in Camden that just blew my […]
Like Parallel Felines, the name of the album guided this choice. The fact that it’s a blinder of an amazing album which turns me into a purring machine did also have some bearing in the decision. I never thought the lines and shapes would amount […]
My good friend Billie suggested this one – so obvious!!! I thought this would be such an easy one to do, and by all accounts, oh my, how wrong was I…. Simplicity is indeed very hard to achieve. Woo HOO! Find the cat cover prints for sale […]
In the genesis according to Karuski, first came paperdolls. I used to draw a lot as a child/ teenager, but never trained and as other life things took over, the drawing stopped. In fact, it stopped for twenty years. Then motherhood […]
In the cat covers series, I give you Meowles Davis and his Burmese brew! My other half is the jazz head in this equation and it was time I paid my dues…. The original is an amazing ode to psychedelic phantasmagoria, so this was no […]
To celebrate the launch of my blog, I give you Nouvelle Vague cat cover style! When I got invited to the Meow Exhibition in August 2013, little did I realise that this was part of a wider festival and that the headliners were the mighty […]
Karuski's little shop of colours 