Standing Dogs

This artwork featured in House of Beasts (2012).

Rachel Goodyear’s intricate and compelling drawings operate in an imagined dream-like world. She examines the role that animals play in our imaginations and the rich associations that they hold for us.

With exquisite attention to detail, her work could be natural science illustrations. Indeed the characters that populate her work are acutely observed and strangely familiar- the pipistrelle bats breeding at Attingham, the common crow, or the Bewicks’ pet dogs- and yet there is something curious and unsettling in the way they are presented.

Image: Rachel Goodyear, Standing Dogs, pencil and watercolour on paper, House of Beasts, Attingham Park, 2012. Image courtesy of Tim Blanks.

 

About the artist

Rachel Goodyear

Rachel Goodyear exhibited in House of Beasts, Attingham Park, 2012.

Image: Rachel Goodyear, Standing Dogs. Pencil and watercolour on paper. Courtesy Tim Blanks.