Ivory Cats Calendar

The Ivory Calendars are always beautiful and this one is truly lovely. I can't imagine starting a new year without a new Ivory Calendars. The old ones (and I have eleven) are never thrown away but looked at occasionally. For in fact they are art.

Lesley Ivory is my favorite painter of cats. I have purchased these calendars and other products featuring her artwork for more than 20 years. Of all the painters producing widely distributed calendar art, I believe that she stands alone in her superb ability to capture the spirit and personality of her subjects. Other painters, though good, simply do not depict the accurate body language and facial expressions of cats nearly as well as she does. When I look at a painting done by Ms. Ivory, I get a sense of the cat as an individual, as a "person" -- not merely as an "animate object" that has been portrayed on canvas.

That said, I am rather disappointed in the reproduction quality of some of the images used in this calendar. As in the past, this calendar combines a variety of images painted by Ms. Ivory over her career, a number of which have been featured in calendars and other products previously. For example, paintings of her beautiful calico cat Agneatha,...Read more

I usually give my mom a calendar for Christmas, and she loves her kitties like I do. This was such a big and beautiful calendar I was SO tempted to keep it for myself... but I didn't :( I love Lesley Anne Ivory's art!