Month: September 2024

Nostalgia, Old-World Technique, and Pet Portraits: An Artist Finds Her Sweet Spot—and Acclaim UK-based artist Alison Friend has something of a cult following. Her paintings, which apply Old Master technique to almost caricature-like portraits of animal characters, evoke a deep response, part nostalgia, part recognition of how we anthropomorphize our own pets. When she posts
A quiet cat mostly kept to himself until he met the “shelter bully.” They changed each other and formed an unexpected bond. Carter and HenryExploitsValleySPCA Carter, the cat, came to Exploits Valley SPCA as an emaciated stray. Rough around the edges, he was withdrawn and timid and would hiss if anyone came near. “This, of