Following the success of A Dog a Day (Pavilion, 2017), Sally
Muir returns with a collection of new, but crucially old, faces.
Several years ago Sally Muir began a Facebook project, posting dog art
daily, which became the best-selling book A Dog A Day. Through the
project she was introduced to endless people and their dogs, and the
distinct personalities and complex emotions that owners attribute to
them. More recently, Sally's project changed focus and she asked the
public to send in photographs of their old dogs. Featuring grey muzzles,
milky eyes and wobbly legs, as well as tender anecdotes picked up from a
whole lifetime of companionship, Sally Muir's paintings of our more
senior canines are collected here for the first time.
Sally Muir is well known for her portrayal of dogs, with Elderly Dog
featuring in the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition in 2018 and Hound
following up in the Summer Exhibition in 2019. The popularity of Elderly
Dog has fuelled Sally's desire to continue to paint older dogs, and
celebrate the ageing process of our favourite pets in grace and style.
From loose sketches and lithographs to potato prints and oil paintings,
Old Dogs includes a range of mediums that Sally has become known for,
and embraces dogs of all shapes and sizes: big, small, pedigree and
cross breed.
