Limited Edition prints

Irish Water Spaniel fine art dog print by Mike Sibley

"Connemara Encounter"


After the success of the two prints that I produced for the IWS Club of Great Britain I was constantly asked by members to produce a third. This is it, a personal, non-commissioned print, and my thanks go to Mrs Pat Wake for her tireless assistance. By now I knew the breed well and had firm ideas of how I wished to treat them — especially after the photo-session at the lagoon that soon had the dogs soaked through!

I needed a bird to complete the composition and my cat Jim solved the puzzle — he brought home a Snipe and insisted on taking the body for himself but not before I had rescued the wings and head, which provided all the detail necessary for the study.

You can read about the setting I used.

The original drawing took 139 hours to complete and is now in a private collection in England.
'Connemara Encounter' Irish Water Spaniel graphite pencil drawing by Mike Sibley
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Connemara Encounter

Irish Water Spaniels

edition :  250 + 25 APs
order :  MS173
print :
image :  17½" × 11"
45.5 x 28cm

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