8. Walking in the Dales with a very disappointed dog
Peter had a thing for road signs and used them fabulously in his paintings. This one reads “No cats eyes for 2 miles”, explaining the disappointed dog!
9. Hello! The dog recognized you before I did!
10. Stopping in the woods
Peter depicted himself caught short a few times in his works. Seen here, almost out of view in the trees, whilst Shep waits patiently.
11. Snow on snow
An additional caption reads, “I think the dog may have spotted the 2 deer which are living in this wood”. Shep is almost invisible in this painting. Only his red collar makes his markings distinguishable from the falling snow.
12. Climbing back out of a Pennine valley and heading for Paris (Paris, Scholes where I was born)
13. Neighbours
Such an iconic piece. A simple but effective title. As with many of Peter’s titles, we know firsthand that it rarely fails to make someone smile when seeing it for the first time.
14. 72 for 8 in difficult conditions
How would we know what Peter and Shep were looking in this painting without the title? A score of ‘72 for 8’ tells us they both watching a a cricket team hanging on in the pouring rain.
