I'm an artist and I live in London with five crazy cats and a human. I love painting landscapes, cats, dogs and other animals but a particular love of cats has led to me to specialising in feline portraiture. I would paint more dogs but as we live in a flat in the Centre of London we can't have any of our own so I have to rely on taking photos of friends dogs to get models for paintings.

I love photography and trained (many years ago) as a photographer. That's where I met my other half who was a specialist in black and white printing in those days. That's wet work by the way, not digital. Mucking about with chemicals in the dark! :-) Personally I love the digital revolution.

These days my photography is a hobby and I work as an artist. I work mainly in acrylics at the moment although I love painting in oils too. With my 5 furry babies I have plenty inspiration but friends also send me photos of their cats and dogs (please!) to use as models.

You can see feline art work in progress on my blog www.thepaintedcat.co.uk/on-the-easel

and canine art work on www.thepainteddog.co.uk/on-the-easel and other paintings as well as a selection of cats and dogs on www.deniselaurent.co.uk.