Three Dogs Watch The Sunrise

Three Dogs Watch The Sunrise is an impasto (thick textural oil paint) oil painting on stretched canvas. Three dogs stand at the edge of a loch looking across the water as the sun rises and the fiery sky is reflected in the water. It is painted from memory evocative of a Scottish loch and surrounding hills. 

Built with thick, textured layers of oil paint, the work focuses on the contrast of the warm colours of the sunrise and the cooler blue and greys of the clouds and the last of the night sky. The dark hills frame the water and draw attention to the light spreading across the scene. A weathered tree on the shoreline adds structure and balance to the composition. 

The dogs in my work are whimsical and symbolic of love, enduring friendship, playfulness and companionship. I put them into my work as a way of remembering all the dogs I have known, the ones I still know and the ones I am yet to know.