Lucy Pittaway steps away from sheep in favour of dogs and she launches her latest collection featuring everyone’s four-legged friends.
As the UK’s Most Popular Published Artist, Lucy is a multi-award winning artist, proudly running a family-owned business with beautiful art galleries and a successful e-commerce website serving customers around the world.
She offers stunning original works of art, Giclee prints and striking canvases as well as ceramics, textiles, and stationery which make beautiful gifts or additions to any home. Lucy’s full body of work can be viewed online at lucypittaway.co.uk or in one of her galleries across the North West, including Keswick, the North East and Yorkshire.
What inspired the new collection – why dogs?
I grew up with dogs in our family, we had four at one point along with other animals; cats, chickens, guinea pigs.
Dogs have always been part of my life and it feels very relaxing and natural to be around them.
I’ve had so many different breeds across the years and they give you so much joy and companionship; it’s a special connection we have with our pets.
It’s been on the cards for a while, it was just a case of finding the right time.
My hope for this collection is that it’s another body of work that brings people joy and they smile when they see the humour in the pieces.
All dogs have such different personalities and character traits and I hope I get these across in my pieces.
It helps that my team are also dog crazy, we have 51 staff members and over 45 dogs between them!
Have you enjoyed creating the collection?
It’s been a real rollercoaster this one. I’ve loved every minute of it, but it hasn’t always been easy, some pieces have been incredibly challenging.
No matter how much I love dogs, the reality of painting them was out of my comfort zone.
As a subject, dogs are quite different to sheep, and it took me a while to fully understand this and be able to represent the expressions and personalities of each one.
This was particularly difficult on the pieces that included multiple dogs because I was trying to accurately reflect the breed and facial expressions based on the context of the piece whilst also keeping it light-hearted and quirky.
