The collection includes Homeless Cat, The Ginger Cat, Emerald Eyes, Emerald Cat, Cat in Blue Light, Feline Curiosity Abstract, Feline Majesty Abstract, Feline Geometry, and Feline Mirage. Across these works, recognisable features gradually give way to intensified colour, fragmented shapes, and more elusive forms.
Eyes, posture, and silhouette remain important throughout the collection, even as the paintings move further from conventional animal portraiture. Emerald greens, luminous blues, warm copper tones, and abstract colour fields transform the cat into a changing artistic presence – familiar and independent, observed yet never entirely defined.
Viewed together, Nine Lives in Colour reveals the versatility of the feline form within Alvi’s work. From the concentrated encounter of Homeless Cat to the atmospheric ambiguity of Feline Mirage, the collection traces a journey from physical likeness towards colour, geometry, imagination, and visual transformation.









