Hounds

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: Hot Ten

: Patient

: Reluctant

: One Waiting

: SOLD

: Crimson Hound SOLD

: Kennel Wall SOLD

: Three Couple & a Robin

: Two Couple SOLD

: Couple SOLD

: Bump and Run SOLD

: Walking Out SOLD

: Five SOLD

: Kennel Bound SOLD

: Ten SOLD

: Six Right SOLD

: Nine Right SOLD

: Three Waiting SOLD

: Out of the WoodsSOLD

: Vigil SOLD

: Five Couple out

: Company SOLD

: One SOLD

: Seven Ahead SOLD

: Two Wading SOLD

: Five RestingSOLD

: Three Resting

: Four WaitingSOLD

: Three & a Ball

: One & a Half

: Eight and a Half Couple SOLD

: Three in the Water SOLD

: Vigil II

: SOLD

: Three in Water II

: Driven Five

: Three Couple

: Four Couple

: One in Water

: Three Hounds SOLD

: Waiting Couple SOLD

: 3 & a Half Couple

: Two Couple

: commission

: Crossing HoundsSOLD

: English Pointer SOLD

: Forward Five SOLD

: SOLD

: Three Couple Blue

: Three in Water

It is intriguing to observe synergy between a dog and a man or among a pack of dogs responding to their keepers. There are compelling similarities within a group of co-operating hunting dogs and a community of people. Building a team for a group sport, such as soccer, can have similarities to that required to gather a cohesive efficiently working pack of hounds. The categories of alpha, beta, and omega might apply to all. Making a painting of hounds interacting could symbolically be as valid as rendering a cocktail party. Great familiarity and comfort with the hound shape and interest in behavioral parallels attends this departure into allegory. The themes of commonality might include, need, group think, aggressive play as prelude to conflict resolution in maturity, passive aggression, cooperation, drive, submission, honor, leadership and want. These compelling parallels and the range of visual opportunity within the repetition of the shape ‘of the familiar’ fuel this ongoing series. (more hound images under Dizygotic in Painting Gallery menu)

Leslie Shiels