Arnaldo makes Cats and horses.  The collection of the Kattenkabinet (Cat Cabinet)
at Amsterdam contains nine works by Arnaldo, in different techniques.
 

Dikkie and Fari
9,8x 15 inch sepia, Arnaldo

Dikkie
 9,8x12 inch, sepia, Arnaldo

Fari and Dikkie, 10-14 cm, 
pencil, Arnaldo

Fari and Dikkie, 10-14 cm, 
pencil, Arnaldo

Fari
11,4x19,8 inch Pastel, Arnaldo

Red Cat
11,4x19,8 inch Pastel, Arnaldo

Fari
11,4x19,8 inch collage, Arnaldo

Dikkie, 22-30 cm, 
sepia, Arnaldo

POEMS ABOUT HIS CATS
From: The THE STRENGTH OF THE WOMAN
(see also his poem page)

FLOORTJE

Het leek wel een aaitje
een klein prikje slechts
om te slapen voor altijd

Ze lag in mijn armen
haar blik omhoog
de pootjes slap langszij

Niet eerder zag ik
een dier zo vredig sterven
ontspannen en vol vertrouwen

Zou Floortje dromen
dromen over de poezenhemel
in dat kleine kopje

Zo zou ik als mens
willen sterven in de armen
van die mij het meest liefheeft

march 2012
 

SICK (Digger 1)

Disease digs in your little body
no doctor can turn it round
your cat’s eyes fade already
numbed by pain

Quietly you lie in my lap
I cry looking
you breathe much too fast
stagger on your legs

For hours I feel your warm body
your heartbeat quiets down
I wait until you’ll close your eyes

On that moment of parting
love conquered death
you rose above existence

 You who gave so much love
don’t die and pass away
but stays alive forever

CAT (Digger 2)

The cat died in your arms
you looked at him intensely
he with his light eyes
knew that he would go

Then you showed what love is
then you showed your strength
and I who should have been the strongest
was nowhere and cried softly

FRIEND (Digger 3)

Now you’re finally at peace
cat’s paradise is your home
a place with cute little cats only
there you’re purring now
with your soft fur
on an endless flowerbed

Where he went neither of us know
where a cat can go
no people can be
ask us why
we now have his picture
and some lines text
 

SEPARATION (Digger 4)

Everything is said
no comfort and word
can heal anymore
time will cure
what is missaid

(For Dikkie (Digger) 22 oct. 1987 – 30 may 2001) 

PORTRAITS OF ANIMALS.

Animal portraits by commission.

WATERCOLOURS.
 

Cat back
11,4x19,8 inch Water colour, Arnaldo

Virginia
15,8x197 inch Water colour,  (commission)

Gigi
11,4x19,8 inch (commission) Water colour, Arnaldo

Loetje
11,4x19,8 inch (commission) Water colour, Arnaldo

Loetje
11,4x19,8 inch (commission) Water colour, Arnaldo

Horse
15,8x197 inch Water colour, Arnaldo

Owl from Athens
8x11 inch, Water colour, Arnaldo

Vroontje
15,8x197 inch Water colour, Arnaldo