Travis and his owner Gary Curtis are a regular sight in the photogenic streets of Stamford. As the aesthete behind @theoldbuilding, Gary documents the town’s historic corners and changing light. Together they cover the town day after day, capturing the weathered stonework, painted doors and layered architecture that gives Stamford its character.

Studio days with artist Gillian Durno and Florence the black cocker who steals shoes, curls into dust sheets and accompanies Gillian as she gathers the views that shape her paintings across the Notswolds.

There’s something about Dolly. She takes her work with Sophie seriously, which is relative when you’re a five-year-old wire haired fox terrier with the presence of someone who knows she’s in charge.

“He comes to work with us and is very good at ‘filing’. He will chew the corners off all the paper files, and all the paper in them, so each page has a small sections missing…”

“I met Cassie while working at a rescue centre (Blue Cross). She padded across the field, sniffed me and then rolled over for a belly rub.”

“I always wanted a dog called Marlow, as in the town in Buckinghamshire, near to where I grew up. But we didn’t think it was a very feminine name, so she became Marla instead.”