Hounds

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: Hot Ten

: Three Resting

: 3 & a Half Couple

: One & a Half

: Three & a Ball

: Three in Water II

: Spaniel

: Patient

: One in Water

: Reluctant

: One Waiting

: Three in Water

: Three Couple & a Robin

: Driven Five

: Vigil II

: Two Couple SOLD

: Two Couple SOLD

: Couple SOLD

: Bump and Run SOLD

: Three Couple Blue 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

: Four WaitingSOLD

: Crimson Hound SOLD

: SOLD

: Kennel Wall SOLD

: Eight and a Half Couple SOLD

: SOLD

: Three Hounds SOLD

: Waiting Couple SOLD

: English Pointer SOLD

: Forward Five SOLD

: Crossing HoundsSOLD

: Three in the Water SOLD

: SOLD

: SOLD

: SOLD

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