About the Author

BURTON SILVER is a cartoonist, inventor, and author of more than a dozen books, including the best-selling WHY CATS PAINT. Silver studied psychology and sociology at Victoria University. He lives in Wellington, New Zealand.
HEATHER BUSCH has been a visual artist for nearly 30 years and is drawn to perceptions and paradigms that expand and entertain her mind. She has a fine arts degree in sculpture and has become internationally recognized for her paintings and photography. She lives in New Zealand.

Reviews

"You'¬?d think a person would have better things to do with $5,000 than to have her cat painted to look like a pig. . . . I personally appreciate feline beauty without a brush, but for the person who has every art book, my bet is they don'¬'t have one showcasing cats as canvases." --" Atlanta Journal-Constitution" "I would not paint a cat if someone paid me to do so. I would not paint a cat if Picasso rose from the grave and taught me how. If a cat represented the last piece of canvas on earth, I still would not paint that cat. I just know better. Sadly some people do not. . . . I'¬?m pretty sure it'¬'s not a hoax." --" Jackson Clarion-Ledger""Suggests itself both as art and an art. Who am I to kibble?" --" San Francisco Chronicle""Painted cats transform into art with a purrpuss."--" Las Vegas Review Journal""By the time you finish flipping through WHY PAINT CATS, the latest art-book collaboration by writer Burton Silver and photographer Heather Busch, you'¬?ll have more questions than answers. Seeing Charlie Chaplin'¬'s face painted on a cat's rump has that effect."--Heather McKinnon, "Seattle Times""It felt wrong. I was appalled. Then I began to flip through the book, and was knocked back on my heels by the beauty of (some) of the works of art. A question I'¬?d never considered nestled in my brain:
Why not paint cats?"--"San Diego Union Tribune " "Kitty Porn . . . What a little tramp! . . . Always wanted to paint your cat like an alien but never had the balls to try?"--"Maxim" magazine""