This  is a 20×16 inch painting on board of the famous and handsome dog Brahmin, standing in front of the Boston Lighthouse.

This is a very special painting. It’s going to be auctioned at the American Bullmastiff Association Art Auction, in Boston, on the 24th of September. The proceeds will go to the ABA to help with the work they do with bullmastiffs. All animals charities are struggling in these difficult times, so I hope this painting will help raise much needed funds for ABA and bullmastiffs.

It’s taken me a few days but I’ve finally got the photos from Bromley sorted out and up op on flickr!  Here they are….

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Cats, Dogs and Other Animals is on at The Ripley Arts Centre until the 28th of August.

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Our annual open studio event is underway in Lingfield. As usual it’s been very busy, lots of people have been to visit us. This year as well as Lois and myself we have a jeweller, Helen Morris-Clarke, who has her beautiful jewellery on show in the gallery alongside the paintings. Follow the link to take a look at this years show, as well as photos of the animals who had plenty of visitors themselves.

On Saturday we had a Pimms afternoon. It was a lovely sunny day and we had some wonderful food to go with our Pimms. People came all through the afternoon and into the evening to look at the gallery, have a Pimms and enjoy chatting in the sunshine in the garden.

We are open again this week until Sunday.

The SOFA show is on now at the Llewellyn Alexander gallery in Waterloo. The private view was on Tuesday and I’ve put photos up on flickr of the show.

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I’ve started a Facebook page for my paintings here http://www.facebook.com/pages/Denise-Laurent/152001500099. I’ll update it with new work and people can become fans by clicking a button. It looks like fun.

The invites are out for the 2009 SOFA show. It runs from the 28th of August to the 18th of September at Llewellyn Alexander gallery, opposite The Old Vic theatre in London’s Waterloo.

Lois and I had a wonderful time at Open Studios again this year. We met some wonderful people and animals. Here are a few photos of the event at the studio in Lingfield.

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I have two new Christmas cards this year, Snowflake Kisses and Happy Holidays. Here they are…

You can find them in The Painted Cat shop.