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.