The Dog Portrait Artist
Where do I begin? Do I start at primary school where, like so many children before and after me, I drew my favourite cartoon characters?
Do I start at aged 12, drawing my guinea pig (I wasn’t allowed to have a horse) who courageously sat through hours of being used as a life model?
Do I start in high school where I was taught to draw with the “right side of my brain” and was really impressed when my drawings actually looked like what it was supposed to?
Or do I start aged 38 when I decided to live in the moment like the
