Southern View: January 17, 2017

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SOUTHERN VIEW Tuesday January 17 2017 7
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Stray cat Charlie leaves pawprint
• By Georgia O’Connor-Harding
A STRAY cat, which has left
a pawprint on the hearts of
a Halswell couple, has an
unlikely resemblance to one of
silent film’s biggest stars.
Charlie Chaplin, a “scruffy”
cat, has inspired a popular collection
of bright feline-themed
pots at the Halswell Community
Market.
The cat first began to make
Nick Hawes, and his wife
Pauline Dellow’s, house a daily
pit-stop about a year ago – at a
time when they were looking
to pursue a creative hobby of
their own.
Sharing similar characteristics
to a tramp, the couple
of 38 years, named the stray
after English comic actor Sir
Charles Spencer, after they saw
him play the role of The Tramp
in the film of the same name.
“The cat just reminded us
of Charlie Chaplin and the
little sad looking character
that looked in the windows of
shops,” Mr Hawes said.
The couple, who had been
working in the digital technology
realm for more than 20
years, decided they missed
the fulfilment of illustrating
designs from hand.
“We needed to do something
for ourselves which we could
continue to go out and get a
little bit arty with. Get back to
our roots which is design a lot
of handcraft work,” he said.
CREATIVE HOBBY: Halswell resident
Pauline Dellow with her husband Nick
Hawes have used their artistic skills to
set up a popular stall at the Halswell
Community Market Many of the items
were inspired by cat Charlie Chaplin
named after Sir Charles Spencer (left). ​
Artistically stimulated by the
cat Charlie Chaplin, the couple
made an overnight decision to
set up their own creative hobbies
Cats in Your Face, building
up a popular following
both within the community
and on their Facebook page.
Mr Hawes describes the face
of their hobbies as a “grownup
not to be cuddled” and a
cat who “does his own thing.”
“He comes when he wants to
come and thanks us by hissing
at us . . . he adopted us,” he said.
A year later the cat-themed
pots are in demand with
orders coming from places including
Invercargill, Dunedin
and Ashburton.
With a strong love for cats,
the couple regularly give part
of their proceeds to the Cats
Protection League Canterbury
based in Linwood.
Mr Hawes has been a
creative director of his own
advertising and marketing
business Yellow Pencil for
more than 34 years.
“When we started everything
was done by hand. We used
pens and paper. Everything was
an art and has developed into
digital technology,” he said.
But he said while he and his
wife found a “mutual enjoyment”
in hand-painting pots,
he would not wish to go back
to the technology of three
decades ago.
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