Because she also had a dog herself, Lobke. On February 20, it will be exactly three years ago that she had to say goodbye to her. “We were together for 11.5 years, we have been separated for no more than five days in all those years. She developed skin cancer, hence the pigment spots in the photo on the right. I had to put her to sleep,” she says emotionally as she looks at the prominently placed picture in the living room. “I still miss her.” Lobke also wants to paint them sometime, but emotions are still in the way.