To go or to stay
(2025) 24 x 30 inches *SOLD
“To Go or To Stay” captures a quietly magical everyday moment with the cat seemingly in deep conversation with a visiting bird, chirping out an irresistible invitation for a round of coffee. The cat, already with a kopi tabao hanging from its shoulder, is deliberating whether to go or to stay.
The scene is light-hearted yet layered—blending the mundane with a dash of mischief and wonder. Is the cat on its way home, or is this a moment worth lingering in? The painting gently poses the question: do we rush ahead, or pause to savour the miracles hidden in everyday encounters?
In typical Catmasutra style, humour, charm, and quiet reflection meet in one whimsical tableau—reminding us that sometimes, the smallest detours offer the richest delights.
seal signature: 日常奇迹
Flow
(2025) 24 x 30 inches *SOLD
“Flow” captures the cat in mid-adventure as it rides the rolling ocean waves, leading a vibrant school of koinobori (carp streamers) in joyful procession. Each koinobori, traditionally a symbol of courage, perseverance, and aspiration, dances in rhythm behind the cat, swept forward by its unshakable presence and playful spirit.
Here, the cat isn’t just riding the wave—it is the flow. With effortless grace, it shows us that true leadership doesn't push or pull; it invites. The cat leads not by force, but by being fully attuned to the moment, allowing purpose and joy to carry everything forward.
"Flow" is a celebration of momentum, harmony, and self-trust—a whimsical reminder that when we move with presence and authenticity, the world follows.
Seal signature: 流
Nami Fox
(2025) 24 x 30 inches *SOLD
“Nami Fox” features the cat, eyes closed and grinning, riding a sweeping wave with a kitsune mask in paw and a playful cloud of pufferfish above. The kitsune mask symbolizes transformation and self-awareness, a reminder that wearing different faces is not deception, but a path to deeper self-awareness. The cat doesn’t wear the mask; it carries it, suggesting mastery over identity, not confusion within it. The pair of pufferfish, hovers like a cloud of unlikely guardians. It symbolizes hidden resilience and the ability to adapt—soft and odd at first glance, yet fierce when necessary. Their presence adds humor and protection, floating between the surreal and the symbolic.
The wave reminds us to flow with life rather than struggle against it. It is fluid yet rooted, arises from a rock like a sculpted vase of motion—a paradox of movement and stillness. It reminds us that true flow begins with grounded presence. We are not meant to carry the wave or fight it, but to become it—anchored, aware, and in harmony with life's ever-shifting tide.
Together, the scene is a celebration of surrendering control without losing intention. It invites the viewer to embrace transformation, to ride life’s momentum with presence, and to find lightness—even absurdity—in the journey.
Seal signature: 波
Cloud Lotus
(2025) 30 x 30 inches *SOLD
“Cloud Lotus” captures the essence of ease and presence. The cat nestles peacefully in the heart of a blooming white lotus, eyes gently shut and smiling in quiet bliss. Around it, soft lines of clouds float serenely, glowing in the early morning light—suggesting both stillness and movement, as if time itself has slowed to breathe.
Sparrows—symbols of freedom, simplicity, and cheer—flit and rest along the cloud lines, playing without a care, embodying the effortless joy of simply being.
The scene feels weightless, tender, and quietly uplifting.
A meditation on the joy of living lightly, this painting invites us to let go, float freely, and find grace in the present moment.
Seal signature: 存在之轻
Woven Dreams
(2025) 30 x 40 inches
The cat rests in quiet communion as azure-winged magpies emerge from a porcelain vessel, like thoughts drifting between wakefulness and memory. Both cat and magpies wear soft blue trapper hats — symbols of warmth, trust, and gentle protection — marking a shared inner climate where imagination is sheltered and free to wander.
Through the simple ritual of sharing ice kacang, the painting reflects how presence lingers long after the moment itself has passed — traces of curiosity, care, and companionship settling softly into our dreams, habits, and moments of reflection.
Seal signature: 猫梦
Sage of Six Bowls
(2025) 24 x 30 inches
This piece captures a moment of effortless balance, where the cat rests in composed stillness atop a stack of six bowls drawn from Peranakan and vintage designs. These everyday vessels—once part of daily meals and routines—form a quiet foundation of memory, culture, and continuity. In Chinese symbolism, the number six suggests flow and harmony, echoed in the cat’s calm presence. Neither performing nor striving, the cat simply is—offering a gentle reminder of what childhood already knew that adulthood forgot: balance without effort, presence without agenda, stillness that asks nothing of anyone watching. In the rhythm of modern living, such moments of balance feel both familiar and quietly profound.
Seal signature: 六碗猫贤
Prosperity Suit: Tricolour — Return to Play
(2026) 24 x 30 inches
Dressed in a tricolour maneki-neko suit, the catmaSutra cat embodies a cheerful emblem of welcome and good fortune. Around him, flowing lines of clouds and waves ripple outward, animated by the spinning motion of a small top. In this playful gesture, the cat reveals the easy spontaneity that childhood carries without effort. Through quiet curiosity and light-hearted play, he reminds us that prosperity can be found not only in symbols of luck, but in the warmth of shared presence and the familiar, half-forgotten pleasure of play for its own sake.
Seal signature: 猫福
6. Prosperity Suit: Orange — Safe Journeys Home
(2026) 24 x 30 inches
The cat wears a vibrant orange maneki-neko suit, the colour of safe passage and smooth travels. Around him, curling clouds and drifting waves trace the looping arc of a yo-yo — a playful motion that mirrors the joy of childhood itself, looping, spontaneous, in no hurry to land anywhere in particular. With a cup of kopi in paw, the cat echoes a familiar ritual passed down and picked up without ever being taught — the quiet, shared rhythms that settle into a life, long before we notice we’ve inherited them. Even when journeys take us elsewhere, these small gestures speak of connection, patience, and the profound ways the smallest rituals anchor us. Here, prosperity is playful, gentle, and unique — found not in distant horizons, but in shared presence, ritual, and delight, capturing childhood joy as the motion itself, repeated for its own sake.
Seal signature: 猫福
Snow Machine
(2025) 24 x 30 inches
The cat, wearing a winter hat, quietly crafts an ice kacang that blooms into flowers beneath a gentle snowfall. Nearby, a bird preens itself under one wing, clearing loose snow, unhurried and entirely its own — while an old ice shaver stands in the background, anchoring the scene in memory and tradition.
Here, snow falls in the tropics simply because a child once imagined it could. The kacang becomes a small act of creation, ordinary syrup and shaved ice turned into flowers by nothing more than attention and wonder. The bird’s small grooming ritual and the cat’s quiet crafting sit side by side — two private moments of care, needing no audience.
Snow Machine holds that particular freedom: the tropics and winter coexisting without contradiction, because a child’s logic never asked for one.
Seal signature: 雪梦
A Map of you
(2026) 24 x 30 inches
We inherit more than objects. We inherit words, songs, rituals, gestures, and small acts of care — fragments of other lives that quietly become part of our own. These are things that went unnoticed while they were happening, only becoming a map — memories embodied — once there was no one left to ask. In A Map of You, the cat gathers these fragments: a father’s dictionary, a mother’s singing, a grandmother’s flowers, home made “bak zhang”, a game of mahjong, the ordinary rituals of a childhood home. Some have survived; others, like the ixora that was never replanted, have quietly disappeared.
Together, they form a map of where we came from. We are, each of us, not the ones who draw the map but the ground it’s drawn on, all of it becoming terrain simply by being lived. A Map of You is the map left behind: unfinished on purpose, because it was never meant to be kept whole. It’s meant to be read, walked, and eventually redrawn — by whoever comes next, carrying it forward as their own.
Time to Play
(2025) 24 x 30 inches
The cat sits comfortably behind the slight opening of a Japanese screen painted with frolicking rabbits — watching, waiting, wearing the quiet satisfaction of someone whose trick is about to land. One rabbit obliges, leaping free of its painted world into the cat’s own, exactly as though the cat had planned it all along.
It’s less a boundary broken than a door held open. The cat doesn’t look surprised by the leap — it looks proud, the way anyone does when a small, private magic finally arrives on cue. Stillness and motion sit together for one instant: the screen’s other rabbits caught mid-frolic, unmoving, while the one rabbit crosses all the way through. Time to Play suggests that wonder isn’t something that simply happens to us — sometimes it’s coaxed, invited, quietly staged by whoever still remembers how.
ourselves to possibility, creativity, and playful companionship.
Song of the Carp
(2025) 30 x 30 inches
Somewhere past the edge, the leap already happened. The cat moves through rolling waves with it, shamisen in hand, playing as it goes. Behind, a daruma watches, patient and unmoving, the way old promises watch over new adventures.
There is no destination here, only the ride itself — music carried across water, waves met with a song instead of a struggle. The daruma asks nothing and says nothing; its stillness is its own kind of company, the quiet certainty that whatever tips or rocks will, in time, right itself again.
Song of the Carp is what courage looks like once it stops being effort and starts being play — rising with the waves, riding along for a while, moving on. Radiant precisely because it doesn’t ask to last.
Seal signature: 流光行
Lotus Blue
(2025) 30 x 30 inches
"Lotus Blue" captures a playful, joyful moment of remembered childhood. The cat peeks from the heart of a vibrant red lotus, eyes alight with curiosity, while blue tit birds dart through a flurry of petals, caught in a suspended moment of delight. At the center, the lotus seed pod quietly anchors the scene, a subtle reminder of life’s cycles and the gentle continuity of growth.
The painting evokes the carefree wonder of early years, where discovery is constant, joy is immediate, and even a small corner of the world can feel endlessly magical. Animals here are companions of imagination, playful witnesses to the lightness and curiosity of childhood.
Lotus story
(2024) 24 x 48 inches
At ease, soft winds hum,
Gentle touch of morning dew—
Delightfully yours
Going Home
(2024) 30 x 30 inches
A companion to Setting Off, Going Home celebrates the quiet joy of finally turning back — not toward a place left behind, but toward the self that set out to find it. Arrival is not the end of a search but the settling of one.
The cat as Samurai Friday (an ongoing side-series), journeys through a dreamlike landscape in a simple dragon boat, a softly glowing lantern held in his paw. What was released returns, changed. Arrival, it turns out, was never about the place — only about carrying the light steadily enough to find your way back to yourself. The lantern is that light, carried inward as much as forward; the kingfishers, free and untroubled, are what the spirit looks like once it stops searching. His eyes closed, his smile the one that comes from being exactly where he already was. Home.
Harmony
(2024) 30 x 30 inches
Yin and Yang entwine,
A play in the dark and light—
Heaven’s delight!
Setting Off
(2024) 30 x 30 inches
Part of the ongoing Samurai Friday series, Setting Off celebrates the beginning of a new journey before the destination is known. Departure is not a leap into uncertainty but a quiet act of trust — a willingness to move without yet knowing where the path leads or even needing to.
He stands in a humble boat on calm water, scattered with blooming lotus flowers — old symbols of inner growth, purity, the slow unfolding of a path not yet fully seen, their leaves lifting to receive the gentle spring rain that falls around him. It carries only promise, each droplet a small renewal. In the distance, mountains rise faintly, more felt than seen, while cherry blossoms drift across the shimmering lake as if dancing with it. Ahead of the boat, a pair of swallows circles like guides, already celebrating a journey that has only just begun. Holding a paper umbrella, the cat opens into a stillness that comes only from moving in harmony with oneself.
A meditation on courage, clarity, and grace, Setting Off asks us to follow our calling — not with haste, but with presence, as every journey outward is also a journey within.
Bliss
(2024) 30 x 30 inches
Bliss wraps like soft dawn,
Serenity in each breath—
Smiles light up the day.
Levity
(2024) 24 x 30 inches
Freedom’s light touch,
Laughter dances on the breeze—
Boundaries dissolve.
Majestic
(2024) 30 x 30 inches
Majestic yellow,
Horizon meets the heavens—
Wonder paints the scene.
Spellbound
(2024) 30 x 30 inches
Spellbound by the stars,
Eyes spark in the cosmic dance—
Magic holds the night.
Butterflies
(2024) 30 x 40 inches
Wings of whispered grace,
Symbol of joy and love’s dance—
Spring’s delicate kiss.
Sweet
(2024) 30 x 30 inches
Twin phoenixes rise,
Together in dawn’s embrace—
Sweet constellation.
Sunrise
(2024) 24 x 30 inches
New beginnings dawn,
Fresh hopes bloom with morning light—
Past and future blend.
Beginnings
(2024) 24 x 36 inches
Mischievous joy stirs,
Kopi and roses swirling—
Laughter blooms with ease.
Charms
(2024) 24 x 30 inches
This painting celebrates something we never truly lose: the childlike nature that lives within us — free, joyful, curious, and completely present in the moment.
The chimes and good-luck charms embody this innate spirit, carried gently by the wind. The cat, nestled among flowers beside a Daruma, is at ease in this state of being. Beyond the sweeping tree, the horizon opens endlessly where sea meets sky — a reminder of the possibilities that emerge when we allow ourselves to reconnect with the way we once saw the world.
Perhaps reclaiming childhood is not about becoming young again, but about remembering what was already there.
Victory
(2024) 30 x 30 inches
Vast sky holds our gaze,
Moments drift like passing clouds,
Fleeting yet they stay
Unplugged
(2015-24) 30 x 40 inches
Silence wraps the mind,
Awakening from within—
Childhood whispers free
Seasons
(2015) 36 x 36 inches
Improbable flakes,
Drifting down in warm embrace,
Whispers of surprise
Wonderful
(2015) 36 x 36 inches
This familiar love,
Moments loop like whispered dreams,
Time's echo lingers
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Symphony
(2012) 24 x 30 inches
*SOLD
Curious cat meows,
Runs rampant on sleepless nights,
Nonsense fills the dark
Ride
(2012) 24 x 36 inches
*SOLD
Windswept hair and dreams,
Riding high on freedom's breath,
Sky stretches ahead
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