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A cowboy and his dog are taking a break while the herd grazes in a mountain meadow. As a child, my first love was horses, and then dogs. What better way to combine childhood memories than a painting that embodies both? Cowboys have used dogs as herding partners practically ever since they started gathering cows. I used my dog Shep as a model for the dog. However, I had to take a few liberties with her; she is a Samoyed cross and I had to go back to her Border Collie roots and make her a smaller dog; a little longer and narrower. She told me she didn�t mind.

Gail Daley is a self-taught artist and writer with a background in business. An omnivorous reader, she was inspired by her son, also a writer, to finish some of the incomplete novels she had begun over the years. She is heavily involved in local art groups and fills her time reading, writing, painting in acrylics, and spending time with her husband of 40 plus years. Currently her family is owned by two cats, a mischievous young cat called Mab (after the fairy queen of air and darkness) and a mellow Gray Princess named Moonstone. In the past, the family shared their home with many dogs, cats and a Guinea Pig, all of whom have passed over the rainbow bridge. A recent major surgery on her stomach and a bout with breast cancer has slowed her...