This is Gobbolino

He started off being feral, darty and scratchy but pretty soon showed an increasingly softer side

He lives in the wild in the Karoo and every time I go there we reconnect

He breaks my heart because I can't take him home (the city is no place for him) and I worry about him- especially last season when the mice didn't breed as much as they usually do

He is named after a character from a series of audiotapes I listened to as a child

Gobbolino was born as a witch's cat and then proceeded to be a ship's cat, a knight's cat, all other sorts of cats, until he finally achieved what he always wanted, which was to be a kitchen cat in a domestic home, purring in front of a fire

So this is my wish for my Karoo Gobbolino and all the other Gobbolinos out there:

May they all find a good home, some real love and security, and a warm fire

Cotton voile, cotton dipinto, appliqué, pojagi and hand embroidery

48cm x 61cm

After an 18-year career in fashion design, in 2021 Janice Codron shifted her focus to textile art

Her practice draws on traditional techniques: appliqué, embroidery, patchwork, and quilting, reworked with a distinctly contemporary sensibility

In the last 5 years, she has exhibited both locally and abroad, including a sellout presentation at the Investec Cape Town Art Fair with Vault Research

Codron's work is held in collections across South Africa, the United Kingdom, Amsterdam, Germany and Lichtenstein

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