Retro Cat and Red Apples
6x8 Oil on Canvas
Cheri Wollenberg
This little ceramic cat was an article that graced my grandmother's home for many years. As a child I was fascinated by it as well as other items that she had placed around in various arrangements or on certain table tops with family pictures. She had 9 children of whom my mother was number 6. My grandfather had been a farmer all his life except when he served in WWI so they didn't have a lot of monetary things. Their home was full of love; however my grandmother of 4'11" was a disciplinarian! I'm sure she had to get her bluff in some way because of her size if not because of the need for organization in a large home and family situation. Plus, on this side of my life I understand why one would not want 15+ grandkids jumping on her beds. All this to say, I was not allowed to play with her knick-knacks, but I had a great imagination. I imagined stories around this little ceramic figure....some of them quite whimsical. It became one of my possessions when I found it in my mothers garage many years later. This little painting makes me smile. I smiled all the time I painted it. The figurine is in other paintings I've done. I still get a charge of memory out of arranging it in compositions great and small. It is listed in my Etsy store.
