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Pet Portraits by Sally Logue UK Animal Portrait Artist
Animal and Pet Portraits in Pastel since 1991 - www.portraits4pets.com
Online Gallery of Pet Portraits in Pastel by Animal Artist Sally Logue UK
Guaranteed good likeness of people and pets - preview your portrait online prior to payment and dispatch!
Lunar Year of the Dog Coins
They're minted in New Zealand, sold in Russia and are legal tender in
Cambodia. If you're as baffled as I am then here's another clue -
it’s the Year of the Dog....
Sally Logue’s career as a pet portrait artist started off really
just by chance. When she first met her husband he asked her to draw something
for a picture frame he had so she drew his dog. That was 16 years ago
and it snowballed from there. Today she's known internationally taking
commissions from all around the world. Last autumn she got her most unusual
commission yet when she got a call from New Zealand Mint
''I thought it was a bit of a wind up really, it seemed so far fetched.
I had a phone call from New Zealand Mint as they were interested in using
some of my dog portraits on coins to mark the Chinese Year of the Dog''
Across the other side of the world a contact at the New Zealand Mint had
seen Sally's website and liked her work. They'd been commissioned by a
Russian Banking organisation to produce a series of commemorative coins
to mark the Chinese Year of the Dog, coins which the mint were licensed
to issue through Cambodia. Sally spent over an hour on the phone to New
Zealand going through the 100's of dog portraits on her website trying to
find dogs which would have particular appeal to Russian collectors
After a long search Springer Spaniel Tara (Penrith) and Black Lab Trevor (Cumwhitton) and Newfoundland Jack (Whitehaven) were three of the lucky
ones to make the cut. Tara chosen because of her likeness to Russian Spaniels
because of her long ears and Trevor tracked down 5 years after Sally initially
painted his portrait.
And so the finished product with the King of Cambodia on one side and
one of Sally's portraits on the other is now a reality. They're each made
form 1 oz solid silver and are worth £50 each and since they were
such a success Sally has now been asked to do the same for the Year of
the Pig. So anyone out there with a pet pig, you're in demand.
The other dog portraits featured on the New Zealand mint coins are:
BloodHound - Murphy
Huskey - Kayleigh
Newfoundland - Jack
Sha-Pei - Zak
Borzoi - NZ Mint
St Bernard - Poppy