Found!: Looking for the name of a cat artist

[carbonel]

Hi! It's been a while, so it's a bit embarrassing that my first post is asking for help, but maybe it'll inspire me to do a better job of posting (I do read DW regularly, at least).

I posted this query in a couple of unrelated forums and got a lot of suggestions but not the correct one, so I’m trying again here.

On a group on Ravelry, someone posted Mary Engelbreit’s classic illustration of life being a chair of bowlies, and that reminded me that I’ve been trying to remember the name of the same sort of popular artist from the 1990s, but her specialty was cats. Mostly realistic-looking cats based on ones she actually knew, in characteristic cat-type positions, but with lots of colorful decorations in the rest of the picture. I had a couple of calendars and an organizer with her work, but I’ve totally forgotten her name. It might be a three-name name. There were a couple of years when her art was pretty much everywhere, and then she faded quickly, alas.

Does this ring a bell for anyone?

ETA: One of my friends on Ravelry finally found it after (counts) twelve wrong guesses. There are a lot of cat artists out there! The artist in question is Lesley Anne Ivory.

Names that it's not:

B. Kliban
Laurel Burch
Doris Hays
Susan Herbert
Lesley Fotherby
Linda Jane Smith
Lisa Frank
Elizabeth Blackadder

Comments

[anne]

Ann Mortimer?

[carbonel]

That is absolutely the right sort of style, but Anne Mortimer isn't the artist I'm trying to find. Her stuff looks great, though.

[js_thrill]

Lesley Anne Ivory?

[js_thrill]

It looks like I added my guess at right around the same time you were getting the answer from someone on Ravelry. (I had searched for 1990s cat calendars on eBay, and suggested a 3 named artists that showed up in the results).

[carbonel]

Excellent search skills, even if someone else already found it. (Turns out Susan Powers did somewhat similar cat art in the same period, so that might have showed up as a non-three-named artist in your search.)