Border Collie Dogs Driving Sheep through Welsh Farmland Gate
by Edward McNaught-Davis
Title
Border Collie Dogs Driving Sheep through Welsh Farmland Gate
Artist
Edward McNaught-Davis
Medium
Painting - Acrylic On Panel
Description
Border Collie Dogs Driving Sheep Through a Welsh Farmland Gate is an acrylic painting on panel and which has been photographed and digitally split to form two reproduction prints of which this is the left hand side. The right hand side to the complete original painting is shown on the next page.
I painted this picture as I see this scene on a daily basis either from my house’s upstairs windows or when I am walking my dog this way.
To explain the picture you can see two farm Collie dogs herding sheep through an open farm gate and into the foreground of this driven sheep painting. The foreground is the start of a paddock with a mix of compacted mud and sand. Walking through this foreground paddock eventually leads to farm buildings and more fields.
The painted herded sheep have startled one cockerel on the hunt for grubs. Two more cockerels can be seen on the other split print of the same complete painting and on the next page.
The mid distant field shows a combination of long grasses with a wheeled track formed by flattened grass and as a result of shepherds riding quad bikes to check up on their flocks and grazing cattle. This track leads seemingly towards the Cambrian Mountains horizon.
The grass and wild flowers in this mid distant field is purposely grown long during late Spring to early Summer so that it can be cut and bailed; for use as winter feed for cattle and bloodstock - cows and horses. Some bails are split and used for animal bedding within the barns.
In reality you cannot quite see the tops of the Cambriians from this viewpoint but I heightened them a little to provide a greater depth to this painting and so to add more interest.
Also I wanted to show the immense space of the unspoiled yet managed countryside in this part of mid West Wales.
Much of the painting is highly detailed and especially the wild flowers and other foreground vegetation along with the animals and birds themselves.
Border Collie Dogs Driving Sheep Passed Black Cockerels is the right hand side to this split painting entitled Border Collie Dogs Driving Sheep Through Welsh Farmland Gate.
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