Recent Works December 11, 2010

Moments With Wild Horses 81 8x8 inches Dec.2010

Moments With Wild Horses 84 8x8 inches Dec.2010

Moments With Wild Horses 77 24x 24 inches Sept. 2010 $1,825.

Moments with Wild Horses 79 8 x 8 inches $300.

A closeup of Duke, a magnificent wild stallion in Disappointment Valley,Spring Creek Basin. This herd is located in the desert between Norwood and Dove Creek,Colorado. He is an older stallion, living with horses whose families were broken up by the 2007 Roundup by the US gov’t/BLM(Bureau of Land Management). He seems to be the wise one and stands in front of the bachelor stallions to look at the unknown intruder. He acted as a protector of the “teen guys” when I last saw him in Sept.2010.  Last year I saw him with a mare and foal, whom he had lost, regained, and is now without again. It is important that wild horses find members to stay with when they lose their families. They need protection and companionship. Wild horses are herd animals.

Moments With Wild Horses 78 12 x 12 inches

Moments With Wild Horses 80 8x8 inches

In august of 2010 I saw this Spring Creek wild horse in Disappointment Valley. After this trip I could not get into the Herd Management Area (HMA) again until september due to flash floods in the arollos which made the dirt roads impassable. The good news was that the horses had more water from the heavens above.

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About karenday

Noble, majestic, powerful, beautiful ... it is these qualities of wild horses that Karen Keene Day sees, and through her paintings, reveals, in a celebration of life through color & movement. In their strong family units in the wild or alone, running free or standing still, Karen paints them with rich colors, free of tack and rider. Karen travels to photograph horses for her paintings, and to find inspiration. This has included trips to study the wild horses of the Pryor Mountains on the border of Wyoming and Montana, the Little Bookcliff Horses of DeBeque, Colorado and wild Marsh horses of the Carolina and Georgia Shores. It is the artist's fervent hope, and the reason behind her painting wild horses, that people's awareness of the plight of wild horses will be raised; raised to tell their senators and congressional representatives they want a final bill passed now, that will permanently ban the slaughter of horses in the USA as well as the transportation of the horses to foreign countries for slaughter.
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