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A domestic animal does not have much control over its life. It depends very much upon the humans that are responsible for it.

I have a galgo Espanol (Spanish sighthound) and she has been a very good dog for someone in her past, and well cared for. I can tell. She is a rescue dog from Spain. She loves people especially men and children. I believe she was a very good hunting dog for someone and I wonder how many litters of pups she has had. Someone decided her life was to end and she was found in the municipal dog pound in Cordoba Spain, but someone else decided she should be rescued. Someone decided she should come to Finland and go to a foster home. I was the lucky person who decided to adopt her!

I wanted to paint the beautiful form of a greyhound and include in it some symbols about its life, whether show, track or hunting hound. See if you can spot them!

This painting is now sold, however you will find more greyhound and galgo Espanol paintings for sale on this website here >>>

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Wheel of Fortune

(detail)

My galgo Espanol (Spanish greyhound) has been used as a life model for a croquis drawing group, in the time before Corona! While she sat patiently the group participants drew her, and I too took the opportunity to sketch her. She has a favourite pose and it is the very same 'waiting' position she uses when we are out and about running errands, therefore I think of it as a typical greyhound pose!

My patient greyhound comes with me to the studio everyday and if I go to the framing shop or post office then she comes too and while I am attending to the business in hand she waits in this same pose.

From the original life sketch I completed during one of the croquis sessions I did a drawing shown below, which someone bought quite quickly. This validated the pose as a good greyhound image and I decided to also use it for this painting.

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Graphite pencil study - SOLD

#freethegalgo

Today is World Galgo Day, and Feb 1st also marks the end of the hunting season in Spain.

Every year in Spain tens of thousands of 'Galgos', also known as the 'Spanish Greyhounds' are bred for the sole purpose of hunting, often living a short life of fear and cruelty. At the end of the season, no longer of any use, the Galgos are killed or abandoned.

I adopted a galgo Espanol, she was a hunting dog in Spain had had litters of puppies and at the age of seven found herself in the municipal dog pound in Cordoba. She was rescued from the dog pound  by Galgos del Sur and brought to Finland via Galgos del Fenix.  

She is a bold and loyal Galgo with a strong character, but has been scarred by the abandonment and is anxious if away from me. So we are hardly ever apart, and that would be the same even if she did not suffer the anxiety. She is great company, a good apartment dog, comes with me to the studio spending the working day on her bed. She has become an inspiration for many of my paintings and given me direction in my work. You could ask who rescued who? But you already know the answer to that.

Hold Tight available as a fine art print