Holly Bennett

Welcome to Spirita Books, publisher of Over the Hills and Far Away by Harford Logan, with illustrations by Holly Bennett.

Harford has spent a lifetime working in partnership with his Border Collies - winning his very first sheepdog trial and then regularly taking home the Irish National Championship Cup.In this book he candidly shares some of his magic - how he chooses his dogs, finds a way to communicate with them and be the handler which a dog of that quality deserves.

On the way he introduces us to the characters and lifestyle of the farming world he grew up in during 1940s Ireland, his first trial successes in front of the handlers he revered as a young man, the joys and challenges of farming the Copeland Islands off County Down in Ireland, then the mountainous Lagnaha in the Western Highlands of Scotland, and finally the antics and dramas of his many ‘working' trips to North America, where he judged sheepdog trials and ran dog training clinics.
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by Holly Bennett

Holly Bennett

Holly Bennett was awarded a BA(Hons) in Fine Art Sculpture at Wimbledon College of Art and a Post Graduate Diploma in Sculpture from the City and Guilds of London Art School.Now a member of the Bath Society of Artists, Holly's work is widely collected and is represented in many private collections across the UK.Always based around human and animal creatures, her sculpture and drawings are full of expression and movement, main influences coming from her observations of life around her - her animals, the countryside, and the way people move and interact with each other.In addition to providing the illustrations for this book, Holly has launched a series of sculptures of the Border Collie through www.McHardyArt.co.uk
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by Holly Bennett