Here’s a special painting that took awhile to be ready for release into the world! It has a special appearance coming up…but more on that later.
“Past Present and Future”, 22 x 30”, watercolor on Arches 300lb/640gsm paper
Reference photo by Chad Hanson
May we see the connection between us, those before us and the rest of life on earth.
(to read more about this painting, scroll down)
If you think this painting is meant to be yours, please email me. I am donating 20% of the profit from this painting between WyoMustangs and the American Wild Horse Campaign! International shipping available.
As some of you know, I’m a big fan of and proud to be friends with Lynn and Chad Hanson of https://www.wyomustangs.org who are photographers, educators and advocates for wild horses. Chad has generously allowed me to reference some of his beautiful photos until I can personally hang out with them on the prairie in Wyoming for a wild-horse-finding tour!
Sadly many places where there used to be wild horses, grazing sheep and cattle now roam: our future steaks and cheeseburgers. Wild horses are being rounded up in large numbers by helicopter chase, some (especially foals or elders) not even surviving the many miles of terrifying pursuit and eventual chaotic corralling into crude holding pens until transportation to facilities not unlike CAFO feedlots. The eventual reality for most of these horses is “long term holding” in crowded corrals or adoption via the Bureau of Land Management’s Adoption Incentive Program (AIP). The AIP is full of loopholes enabling unsavory people to adopt a horse, collect incentive money, then turn around and sell the horse to a kill buyer, which is as awful as it sounds. Those horses are transported to Canada or Mexico for their inhumane ending. Luckier horses are adopted by rescue groups and/or individuals who understand what it means to bring home an untamed, traumatized horse who may or may not be eventually rideable.
I support the American Wild Horse Campaign who are advocating for legislative change to stop helicopter roundups, to fix the Adoption Incentive Program and to re-establish the Wild Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act, a federal law put in place by Congress back in 1971. AWCH also supports & facilitates humane birth control measures for wild horses in the form of a safe and effective vaccine, currently and successfully being used on the range in Nevada. All this and more is why I will be donating 20% of the profit of this original painting to WyoMustangs and AWCH. To learn more visit https://americanwildhorsecampaign.org.
