Marc Zimmerman "Tom" Oil Painting, Sleeping Tabby Cat, Blazing Red and Pink Floral Background, Vivid Palette, Contemporary Art West Coast

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Zimmerman paints this tabby cat the way he paints his jungles: with complete conviction and an absolute refusal to understate. … Read more Zimmerman paints this tabby cat the way he paints his jungles: with complete conviction and an absolute refusal to understate. Tom is curled at the center of a blazing field of red and pink flowers, his amber eyes half-closed, his striped coat echoing the warm tones of the botanical world surrounding him. There is real love and real observation in how this animal is rendered. The warmth of the floral setting is not incidental but essential: Zimmerman has always been interested in the relationship between living things and their environments, in the way a creature can belong so completely to a setting that the two become inseparable. This painting has enormous appeal and genuine warmth. It works in a living room, a kitchen, a family space anywhere you want art that brings genuine personality and chromatic pleasure to the walls.

Marc Zimmerman is an American painter and ceramic sculptor based in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California. For more than four decades, his work has opened doors into imagined worlds: lush jungles filled with fantastical botanical forms, sun-drenched Mediterranean villages, vibrant florals, and ceramic totems that blend ancient influences with a distinctly contemporary vision. Zimmerman's artistic language was shaped by an unusually varied career. His background as a woodcut printmaker brought compositional clarity and strong graphic structure to his paintings, while the influence of Henri Rousseau and Paul Gauguin inspired his richly imagined landscapes. Time spent living and painting in Kauai, along with extensive travel throughout Mexico and Europe, infused his work with the saturated light, color, and atmosphere that define his celebrated Jungle, Village, and Tropical Floral series.

In recent years, Zimmerman returned to his earliest passion, clay, creating his Garden Totem series from hand-sculpted and individually glazed ceramic elements stacked into spontaneous vertical compositions. Rooted in his pottery experience in Venice Beach during the 1960s and 70s, these works bring the same exuberance, movement, and inventive use of color found throughout his paintings into three-dimensional form. His work is represented by galleries in California, Florida, and New York, and is held in private collections throughout the United States and internationally. See less