Worthy to be a Bert

 Storm Bert bites back

We Bert’s don’t do things by half. Take the Albert Memorial for example! 

Returning back on Sunday evening from the spaniel delivery I met a wall of water from Oxfordshire all the way down to the West Country. Many times I passed abandoned vehicles in the middle of the flooded roads. On one occasion I hit a very large pond in the road which completely covered the car. Its windscreen brightly lit up by oncoming car lights blinding me behind the wheel. Police everywhere trying to convince drivers to go another way!

Bert will not be forgotten.

 Storm Bert and A Working Cocker Spaniel 

This stormy weekend has been a seriously interesting one. First of all I had to deliver a bronze Spaniel ‘Mitzi’ to a delighted family whose faces, when they saw it for the first time, were worth a thousand words. 

Mitzi was commissioned by a Medical Consultant for her husband’s birthday. He adores their family pet. They had seen my “Flying Spaniel” on exhibition in Plumber Manor, a country hotel in Dorset.

Mitzi came to my studio for a “sitting”, or more acutely a tear around the garden. She was a joy to watch and I manage to take a hundred photos or so.  Two of them were chosen by my clients”. 

First of all it is a very unusual ‘pose’; at the what I call an interrupted canter, whilst her weight is thrusting forward in weightless flight it is so typically spaniel, but not a classic pose at all. Secondly, she has her mouth open with her tongue out. A tricky challenge for me!

It has been a fun work to do and Mitzi was a “well put together” ‘model’. It is so rewarding when the thing one has ‘created’ comes to a happy parting. They were over the moon with her.