Painting in Spain

◄ Painting in Spain - 'Jenny' ►

Jenny
91.5cm x 60 cm
oil on canvas

I have a passion for running dogs. At the end of a portrait commission I was eager within minutes to start some thing else which was more loose. Jenny is a whippet cross greyhound and one of the most beautiful, elegant, psychopathic hunting dogs I have ever known. She always slept behind me in the studio in this position in my mum’s old chair so it was simply a matter of turning the easel round and starting a new canvas. It was one of the most fluent pieces of work I have done in my mature years! I suppose the time was right and I love this dog to bits. It is the sort of painting you never want to sell….

That is until the most beautiful young Irish lady you have ever seen who has an almost identical dog gently persuades you to part with it….. I can hear her voice now.