Lucy Marshall aka THE DOGOPHILE
NSW
Cartoonist, Painter, Storyteller for the modern, global, thinking dog. Lucy's subjects, the Dognoscenti, enjoy high fashion, art and all things luxury.
MessageAfter years of continuous practice Lucy Marshall finally responded to the howl of the universal dog and founded THE DOGOPHILE in 2015.
Born in England in 1962 and transported to Australia at the tender age of 2, Lucy was influenced early on by her father who adored cartoons. During her teenage years, the drawings of Gerard Hoffnung, Jean-Jacques Sempe,and Charles Addams were instrumental in forcing her to pick up a pen and draw humourous ideas from her keen observations of life around her.Later, Saul Steinberg, Maira Kalman, and Jean-Philippe Delhomme influenced her pen's meanderings.
Later, Saul Steinberg, Maira Kalman, and Jean-Philippe Delhomme influenced her pen's meanderings.
Lucy has a degree in the Japanese language from the University of Adelaide in South Australia.
With a fascination for human communication and behavioural observation, she ran a cross-cultural executive search firm in Asia for 25 years. She is multi-lingual - able to speak English, Japanese and E-Spaniel assisted ably over the years by her Cocker Spaniel, Baci and more recently, Pepper.
She has a keen interest in (human) portraiture and has studied at Studio Escalier in Paris. As such, the principles of human portraiture painting are often combined in turning famous humans into infamous canines through her paintbrush.
Her paintings are a light-hearted reflection of behaviour where celebrity, history, fashion, food, literature, art history, music and luxury travel all collide in a delightfully funny way.
From late 2015, as THE DOGOPHILE, Lucy published The Adventures of Baci - a mini-series story on Instagram.
This has included Baci Goes to Venice, Baci Does London, Baci Returns to Italy, Baci The Bride, Baci's Grand Honeymoon, The Continuous Venetian Affairs of Baci (and her friends), Masquerades in Venezia and her most recent 8th story, Machiavellian Mutt-erings on The Orient Express.
She had her first solo exhibition in Arles, France in 2016, entitled DOGLAND.Lucy’s paintings are held in private collections in Paris, London, NYC, Texas, Arles, Bordeaux, Sydney and Adelaide. Lucy lives at Merribee, 2 hours out of Sydney in Australia, and occasionally Venice, with Richard her husband, and Pepper.
Statement
In her previous life running a Cross-Cultural Executive Search firm in Asia, in 25 years Lucy Marshall met and interviewed thousands of senior executives across numerous societies and cultures. Having always been fascinated by communication, human behaviour, cultural differences and having observed humans for so long in different markets, when a dog first arrived into her family, Lucy then started to analyse dog behaviour! - its similarities and differences to human behaviour.
There are different breeds of dogs, different cultures, looks, behaviour and attitudes. Universally however, dogs are always loyal, eager to please, honest, devoted, caring and genuinely pleased to see one. Unfortunately, Lucy knows this isn’t always the case with humans.
Dogs are a universal theme - everyone everywhere understands their behaviour. By turning dogs into people in her paintings, or people into dogs (?!), combined with humour at all times, Lucy hopes to shine a light back on human behaviour - what is so unique and fascinating about it. And she hopes to perhaps allow people to not take themselves quite so seriously.
And of course, Lucy’s dogs do like the finer things in life - they like to travel first class, attend opera and theatre, collect fine art, read fine literature, take selfies, dress fashionably each season, eat well, and drink champagne. They represent a modern, global, luxe lifestyle at this moment in time.
During the COVID pandemic, they have (unwillingly) stayed in lock-down analysing their art collections, or some, like Marie Antoinmutt, eating nothing but cake.