Animals, Unlike People, Have Never Let Valerie Down

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It was a dreary day in February 2005 when art dealer Sharon Davidson first knocked on Valerie Davide's door in North Cornwall. On the lookout for undiscovered talent, the Totnes gallery owner had already seen five other artists without much success and she was feeling a little disheartened.

Valerie was the last on her list, but Sharon still had high hopes as she was greeted by the artist's husband, Daniel, her terrier dog, Spot, and her voluminous cat Merlin, whose generous proportions and wide ginger stripes made him look as though he had been bred with a tiger.

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Animals, Unlike People, Have Never Let Valerie Down

Inside the couple's home at Gwithian Towans, the visitor was immediately struck by the charcoal drawings of goofy animal studies and nudes that adorned the walls of the little wooden chalet. "I knew that I was in the company of an artist of such singularly unbridled t...

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