Norfolk-based artist Vanessa Lubach likens her printmaking practice to that of oil painting and draws on the latter to inform her vibrant compositions. “Helen with Geraniums.” All images © Vanessa Lubach, shared with permission Vogelsang maintains an Instagram account devoted to her feline collaborators, and you can find much more of her portraiture on her site. They are the ones to determine the schedule.” “In general, sessions with cats are shorter than sessions with dogs.
If they can’t be bothered, they won’t do it for our sake,” she says. “Let’s face it, cats can be so much harder to photograph than dogs. This tends to make the animals more comfortable, she shares, at least enough for her to coax out more genuine emotions with the help of string, feathers, treats, and sometimes catnip for mood-boosting.
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She captures her feline subjects with a range of reactions, whether snarling and baring their teeth or showing off their more playful sides with leaps into the air or a quick flick of their tongues.Ī professional pet portraitist, Vogelsang mostly visits her subjects at their homes rather than bringing them to her Hildesheim studio. Unlike the affectionate canine companions that grace many of Elke Vogelsang’s portraits, the cats she finds in front of her camera exhibit more irritable, even stereotypical emotions. All images © Elke Vogelsang, shared with permission
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