Our collective response to certain abstractions of shape, form and colour is perhaps a result of the way our neurological networks process information. Since Neolithic times, rather than slavishly copying nature, artists have striven to distil its essence. By concentrating on this simplicity their images are still able to evoke a powerful emotional response to this day.

Longdog is the simple primitive dog of childhood. It is derived from the flattened-out archetypal drawing that a child might make but equally it has a universal formal geometry which has been the language of art since prehistory.

Raimond Gaita in his book 'The Philosopher's Dog', rather appropriately, quotes Virginia Woolf: "Art is not a copy of the real world, one of the damn things is enough!"
- Jon Buck, 2022