Catalonia Madness Poster

Watercolour painting of Teddy bear Truffle McFurry holding white flag with an angry bear face in the middle of a Catalonia independency street event in Spain.

Truffle tells the story:

“ I don't know if they told you in your country, but this weekend Catalonia voted for their in dependency. I saw it on the TV, all these yellow and red and blue flags with a white star invading the streets, like a big wave from the sea!

I am not a political bear, well, that's to say, Miki told me to keep away from politics. But I don't like that independency at all, and the violence and the ego which go with it! I want the world to be a big peaceful country, without borders and fences, with we all belonging together!

Miki says I am naive... well, I prefer to be naive that alone in my independent state!

Anyway, last night I had a dream, dreaming i was in the street of Barcelona, almost drowning in this sea of Catalonia flags, and holding a big white flag with th...

Miki, a long short story... Miki is a professional French artist, born in the Pyrenees, Her works have been sold and published worldwide. Her painting is a reflection of her life: a permanent oscillation between light and shadow, lines and shapes, times and places, always looking for that equilibrium which she can only find in continuous movement, in the mysterious and the unknown. A life divided between two passions: mathematics and painting. The first as a supreme form of abstract art ruling her universe... The second as a way of cementing the beauty of that art. Miki, about herself: "... Passionate. Impatient. Unappeasable, uncontrollable! I prefer dancing on a volcano rather than to sit at home! I love the...