Monday, February 02, 2009

Twelve of the best

Twelve of the best


These lovely photos of cats and kittens are some of the final works by renowned artist and wildlife photographer Jane Burton who died in 2007, aged 74
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A new book of her pictures, called 'A Cat's Life', has been published posthumously
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Photographed against a clean, white, background, the pictures capture our furry companions in a host of loveable poses
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Jane and her husband Kim Taylor raised and adopted more than 60 cats and she photographed them at their studio in a converted school near Guildford, Surrey
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Some of these mischievous moggies were captured on film during Jane's final months as she battled cancer
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Jane endeavoured to capture the essence of what every cat lover sees in their own pet by letting her subjects grow up as kittens in and around the studio
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Kim, who still lives at the couple's studio where he and his son also photograph a variety of other animals, said the photos were typical of Jane's talent for capturing animals at their best
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"Cats are notoriously hard to photograph in the studio but Jane managed to achieve what many photographers have been unable to do," he said
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"Jane was not just a talented photographer, she had trained as an artist and, with just a few unerring pencil lines, she could produce lifelike representations of animals," he continued
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For many years Jane's line sketches illustrated her father's regular article 'Nature Notes' in the Saturday edition of The Daily Telegraph
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A Cat's Life is published by White Star. You can buy the book at Amazon.co.uk...
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...It is a heart-warming collection of beautiful images of cats and kittens that will leave cat-lovers purring with delight
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