About the artist:
Emerald Cat -Born (Tania Hayes) in Mclaren Vale, South Australia to the parents of John Hayes and Flemish immigrant Dimphina Ghys. She was taught to draw at the young age of seven by her artist father. She studied fine arts and photography in college achieving distinctions in design.
Working as a full time painter at her studio in South Australia she has accomplished over 1,000 works in mediums of oil, pastel, watercolour, acrylic and pencil.
In 2006, Tania changed her signature and goes by the name of "Emerald Cat" for she believes a title (as a painting) should reflect the artists personality and freedom of choice. She is most famous for her Picatso abstracts, a character invented by herself in 2007.
Emerald Cat has a diverse style and specialises in abstract watercolours (predominantly cats) in bright, bold blended colours but is also a master of realism with her oil paintings. Her works have a surreal, yet realistic quality that has been influenced by her interest in colours, classic literature, beauty and animals. Almost all of her paintings focus on the eyes (for they are the windows to the soul)
Emerald Cat values the viewers own individual perception of art and likes to allow them to form their own ideas, emotional responses or connections to her work.
Emerald Cat © 2022
Emerald City Art
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Emerald Cat -Born (Tania Hayes) in Mclaren Vale, South Australia to the parents of John Hayes and Flemish immigrant Dimphina Ghys. She was taught to draw at the young age of seven by her artist father. She studied fine arts and photography in college achieving distinctions in design.
Working as a full time painter at her studio in South Australia she has accomplished over 1,000 works in mediums of oil, pastel, watercolour, acrylic and pencil.
In 2006, Tania changed her signature and goes by the name of "Emerald Cat" for she believes a title (as a painting) should reflect the artists personality and freedom of choice. She is most famous for her Picatso abstracts, a character invented by herself in 2007.
Emerald Cat has a diverse style and specialises in abstract watercolours (predominantly cats) in bright, bold blended colours but is also a master of realism with her oil paintings. Her works have a surreal, yet realistic quality that has been influenced by her interest in colours, classic literature, beauty and animals. Almost all of her paintings focus on the eyes (for they are the windows to the soul)
Emerald Cat values the viewers own individual perception of art and likes to allow them to form their own ideas, emotional responses or connections to her work.
Emerald Cat © 2022
Emerald City Art
Picatso ® TM ©