'Kitty Pigfish' - Award-Winning Cartoonist
- Book-Jacket Cartoonist -
Fine Artist - Caricaturist - Portrait Artist
- aka Lynda 'Merlynda' Robinson (LLAM) -
- Award-Winning Animal Poet & Verse-Fabulist -
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Kitty Pigfish - (aka: Lynda 'Merlynda' Robinson (LLAM)) - is a multi Award-Winning - Internationally Exhibited - Privately Commissioned - Professionally Auctioned - and Privately Collected - Professional Animal Cartoonist - Caricaturist - Fine Artist - Poetry Book Illustrator - Book-Jacket Illustrator - and - Portrait Artist. She is also a Multi Award-Winning Animal Poet, Verse-Fabulist and Children's Poet - a Multi Award-Winning Songwriter and Composer - and - a former Professional Ventriloquist-Puppeteer performing live for mixed age audiences at events.
She is also a multi Award-Winning Dance & Ballet Instrumental Music Piano & Keyboard Composer - a multi Award-Winning Children's Novelty Songwriter - and - an Award-Winning Fairy-Tale/Story-Poet (Pen-Name: 'Merlynda Jelly Jaws').
Her Black Indian Ink Cartoons, her Fine Art Paintings in Watercolours, Line and Wash, Charcoals, Pastels, Graphite, Acrylics, Oils and Mixed Media, and her Portraits and other Fine Artworks, are exhibited Internationally in the USA, Sweden and France, and throughout the UK, particularly in Commercial Art Galleries in London, Edinburgh and the South of England, and frequently too, at the International Salon De Presse in France. Her Cartoons and Fine Art Paintings have been Auctioned by both Christie's Fine Art and Phillips Fine Art. For a Complete 'Exhibitions List' and 'Client List' - to date - please contact via the 'Contact' page.
She Exhibits her unique, comically cute, soulful, sweet and quirkily fun, Black Indian Ink Animal Cartoons and Fine Art Drawings - both the Originals and as Framed/Mounted Prints and Posters - her Published Seasonally-Themed Cartoon Booklets and Cartoon Pamphlets - her Cartoon Greetings Cards - Cartoon Postcards - Cartoon Bookmarks - Cartoon Calendars - Cartoon Coasters - Cartoon Gifts - and - selections of her Animal Poetry Posters - Animal & Verse Fable Poetry Books & Booklets - her Framed/Mounted Animal Poetry Prints - her Animal Poetry Post Cards and Greetings Cards - her Animal Poetry Calendars and Bookmarks - not only at a variety of Commercial Art Galleries and Exhibition Venues - but also Seasonally - 4 Weekends per year - Spring - Summer - Autumn - Winter - at her quaint mini Art Gallery - 'The Cartoon Caravan' - in Southbourne, West Sussex PO10 8LE, which is a beautifully restored 1960 Carissima Caravan - as Special - Seasonally-Themed - Framed and Mounted Cartoon Print Collections - Cartoon & Poetry Books/Pamphlets/Booklets - as Cartoon Greetings Cards/Postcards - and - as a variety of printed Cartoon & Poetry Publications - including Calendars, Bookmarks and Gifts. She also opens 'The Cartoon Caravan' to visitors by appointment at anytime throughout the year, upon request.
She Also Reads Selections of her Multi Award-Winning Cute & Quirky Animal Poems, her Entertainingly Enchanting Verse-Fables - and sings her sweet and funny Novelty Songs For Children & The Young At Heart - Live - for audiences at Public Literary Events such as Poetry Festivals - Literary Festivals - Book Festivals - in Care Homes and Hospices - Live on Radio - and - for the general public at regular Seasonal Festivals.
She is also the Founder and Editor of two printed and Illustrated Monthly Poetry Magazines, and was a regular Magazine Columnist (with her own full colour Monthly Magazine Page) with 'The Observer Series of Newspapers', based in Chichester, West Sussex.
Not only training as a professional Cartoonist, Illustrator and Fine Artist (please see her Qualifications/Training for details) - she also trained both as an Actor and Public Speaker with LAMDA (The London Academy of Dramatic Art) - and - as a Professional Ventriloquist-Puppeteer - and she created and conducted hilariously fun Professional Workshops For Actors & Speakers In 'The Fantastic Art & Techniques of Ventriloquism'. Her Professional Ventriloquism Workshops were enormously popular at Literary and Poetry Festivals, among others, and she has taught many Professional Entertainers, Actors and Singers over several decades. She is also the Founder & former Resident Trainer of 'The Ventriloquist Club of Great Britain'. Until very recently, she also performed her Enchantingly Delightful and Joyously Mesmerizing Ventriloquist-Puppetry with her Cast of Cute and Vintage Ventriloquist Dolls, Punch & Judy Puppets, and Vintage Marionettes - some over 60 years old - for mixed age audiences at events - both outdoors and indoors - throughout the year. She now collects these Vintage Ventriloquist Dolls, Marionettes and Puppets to preserve them for future generations - both to enjoy - and understand.
Her Enchanting and Delightful Live Poetry Readings/Recitations Videos, Ventriloquist Videos and Instrumental Music Videos are all available to view on Youtube (Channel: BlueBellyLaughs - or - search under Merlynda/Miss Merlynda - Poet - Ventriloquist - Keyboard Composer)
For More Info About Her Poetry and Poetry Publications Which Are Available To Purchase - Poetry Publications Pen-Name: 'Merlynda Robinson' - and - Children's Poetry Publications Pen-Name: 'Merlynda Jelly Jaws' - Please Visit: