Scaredy Cat

SCAREDY CAT Acrylic on Wood Panel | 11" × 14" | 2022 Custom Framed in 2" Deep Black Wood Frame

Arched. Furious. Magnificent.

Scaredy Cat is a black cat at maximum — back arched, fur raised, green eyes blazing, the full Halloween silhouette rendered in impasto acrylic with the kind of devoted, affectionate attention that only someone who genuinely loves cats can bring to the subject. The alarm is completely authentic. Whatever has frightened this cat has made a serious miscalculation.

Behind and around it the background is pure joy — a repeating pattern of red and orange diamond shapes on aqua, painted with the flat, graphic confidence of a tile or a textile or a folk art tradition that understood long before anyone else that pattern and colour are their own kind of magic. The black cat against the patterned ground creates a collision that is simultaneously funny and visually extraordinary — the domestic and the decorative, the alarmed and the ornamental, all present at once.

The green eyes are the painting. Two small points of vivid, living colour in all that black — the cat is terrified and also absolutely, undeniably, completely itself.

Scaredy Cat is one of those paintings that makes everyone who sees it smile before they know why — and then look more carefully and find that it is doing considerably more than it first appeared. Which is, of course, also exactly what cats do.

📦 Shipping & Details

• 11" × 14" original acrylic on wood panel
• Custom 2" deep black wood frame — arrives gallery ready
• Signed and dated 2022
• Ships carefully packaged — ready to hang
• Certificate of authenticity included

One original. No reproductions. Whatever frightened this cat made a serious miscalculation.