There’s a personal story behind every relationship between a dog and its owner. These stories have long fascinated David Remfry RA, who has been painting his friends and New York neighbours with their pets for the past 10 years.

We Think the World of You: People and Dogs Drawn Together (RA Publications, £16.99) brings these graphite- and-watercolour portraits together, along with touching tales the sitters told about their canine friends. Here we find Alan Cumming and his rescue dog Honey, Susan Sarandon and her Pomeranians, and Ethan Hawke with his dog Nina (pictured above).

Buy We Think the World of You: People and Dogs Drawn Together in the RA Shop.
An exhibition of paintings from the book is at the Pallant House Gallery in Chichester until 13 December 2015.