Sight Hound is an art gallery specialising in the sale of antique sighthound art.  We handle original paintings, prints, drawings and photographs featuring whippets, greyhounds, lurchers, salukis, borzois, galgos, deerhounds, wolfhounds, Italian greyhounds and more!

Our name has a double meaning, also deriving from framing terminology in which the 'sight' is the technical term used to describe the inside edge of a picture frame.

Sighthounds have an ancient heritage and have been faithful companions to people for thousands of years.  Their distinctive, elegant forms can therefore be found gracing some of humanity's earliest artistic efforts.  

Despite being particularly effective as hunting dogs, the sighthound’s noble, loyal, intuitive and often sensitive nature has endeared it to generations of owners.  Gaston III, Count of Foix (1331-1391), a master of the hunt in southern France, wrote of the hound in his Le Livre de la Chasse: 'It is the noblest, wisest and most sensible beast in God's creation and in general terms I make no exception for men of any sort or any other living being.'

Sighthounds are still used as hunting (and of course racing) dogs today.  Sadly, in certain circumstances, this means that they are often left needing homes and care once they are no longer deemed able to fulfil such roles, either through age or injury.  Our aim is to help support sighthound welfare by donating a percentage of every sale (presently a minimum of 10%) to sighthound charities. We hope in future to not only increase this support but turn it into something more - perhaps a physical art gallery doubling up as a sighthound sanctuary!

Sight Hound has been set up by Luke Bodalbhai. It was Luke's admiration for depictions of sighthounds in art that inspired the acquisition of his own whippet Luna and the subsequent creation of this project. Read more about us on our Who We Are page.