Let sleeping dogs lie

2006

Bronze, edition of 9

Patina: potash

Foundry: Livingstone Art Founders, Matfield, Kent

approximate size: 5 cm high and 17 cm wide

This small, insignificant dog pictured is actually my Chesapeake Bay bitch Gummi, who was not insignificant or sweet and sleepy and should have been called ‘Toothy’. Fierce with a positively lousy attitude to work she kept me and one flock of sheep in Wales, on our toes. With Gummi never a dull moment, now forever asleep on a shelf in my study; you were a dear and loyal friend if somewhat unpredictable