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Left: Pensive, Kafila Schuru-esch-Schams, washed ink, slightly coloured, 2016. 19.5 cm x 16 cm (7.68” x 6.3”).
Right: Flying, Targi Schuru-esch-Schams, black ink, washed, 2011. 16 cm x 13 cm (6.3” x 5”).
Two Passions I started my training to become a judge,
I have loved dogs ever since I can finishing FCI group 10 and the
remember – and the same goes for Mediterranean breeds.
drawing, painting. When I was in grade 2
there was a school drawing competition – All along the beauty of the sighthounds
What I want to be when I grow up - and kept me fascinated, especially when in
what did I hand in? A watercolour of me action, they were the subject of my
standing in front of an easel, painting! And watercolours and drawings, of figurines in
what did I have on my list of Christmas clay and an occasional acrylic. I enjoy
wishes ever since I was six years old? A bringing the character of a landscape, a
dog. But for reasons that probably only plant or some fruit to life (even if that is
grown-ups could understand I never got called a “still life”), as well. But there
one. So, not quite half a year after our is hardly anything as elegant, light-footed
marriage we got a dog. No, a hound! An as an Oriental sighthound in action, or as
Afghan Hound. And since then (1972!!!) I puzzling or charming as a sighthound
was “hooked” on sighthounds. When the looking at – or through – you! So, the two
coat care of the Afghans got too much for passions, one for the hound and the other
my hands and my timetable with 3 kids for “catching” their beauty in art have
growing up, we changed to smooth coats: accompanied me ever since. To bring a
an Ibizan Hound, and later a Pharaoh, portrait of these strong and beautiful
proceeding to smaller lovely hounds, characters on to paper is always an
Cirnechi dell’Etna. exciting pleasure that I hope I will be
enjoying for many more years.
So, as things go, with showing, lure
coursing and amateur track racing within Gabriele Schröter, Germany.
the German Sighthound Association
