Stray Dogs of Nicaragua

Peta Kaplan-Sandzer paints striking images of stray dogs of Nicaragua set against backgrounds of vibrant, enveloping color. Her paintings capture the special character of each dog and the spirit that allows it to carry on its daily struggle for survival.
 Downtrodden, yet undaunted, the dogs elicited in the artist both fascination and empathy, and became the focus for an ongoing series that now has reach forty paintings.