Broccoli Cat Art

Let me introduce you to Broccoli Cat Art today.
(This is no ad, I'm not getting anything for it, but am sharing something I love, and of course I have asked for permission to write this post, and I'm using a picture of my own on purpose instead of the better original one).

Broccoli Cat Art is Bikky from Melbourne, according to her website an artist with a "mixed cultural background" who is "combining her love of ukiyo-e aesthetics" to "pursue and communicate mental freedom, healing and simple happiness".
Read the full introduction directly on her website to find out more about her inspiration.

All of Bikky's paintings feature a white cat with tabby markings who's "modeled after her own rescue cat named Broccoli" (what a great name, you know I love unusual pet names).

I had seen her art shared before some years ago and then started following her Instagram page when it turned up in my feed there.
Not only do I love her digital paintings (more on that on her website) and the ukiyo-e feel they have to them, I also love the feelings I get from looking at them.
There hasn't been one painting so far that has not made me smile. I know that may sound sentimental (which I readily admit I can be), but the paintings really do give me a moment of that simple happiness that Bikky mentions. They feel the same as if I hug Gundel or have den Dekan sleeping in my arm, only shorter, they are glimmers in my day.

More than once I had been tempted to get a print of hers wishing that postage, tax, and custom and handling fees hadn't increased that much over the last few years. I can't even say how often I went to her print shop and hesitatingly left it again.
I guess I just had to wait for the perfect print - and when I saw it, there was no holding back.
Can you see why?

 Cat, teddy, book ... could it have been better and any more "me" than this??
I chose a light frame for it to pick up on the background and to make the cat take center stage.

If you like cats and ukiyo-e, take a look at Bikky's work.
Maybe it will make you smile, too.