THE IMAGE ARTWORKS
IMAGES of PAINTINGS
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Figure A 'The
Problem with Prometheus' 2020 Oil on cotton canvas (Exhibited) Likened to a wild brumby called Splash that is now rehomed GREETING CARDS & A2 Prints on application 🍃  Figure B 'The Grey
Divide of the Brumby' 2020 Oil on cotton canvas (Exhibited) 132cm x 81.5cm x 3.5 cm Seeing the Soul: Hoofbeats Sanctuary Art Prize and Exhibition 2022 $2300.00 🍃 IMAGES of DRAWINGS Figure C 'Amongst
the Dandelions' Dark days for Barmah Brumbies 2021 Pastel Pitt Pencil on Black canson paper 140gm Photos references from now Barmah Brumby Preservation Group Sanctuary GREETING CARDS & A3 Prints on application 🍃  Figure D 'Dark days
for Barmah Brumbies' Barmah Brumby 2021 Pastel pitt pencil on black A3 canson paper Photos references from now Barmah Brumby Preservation Group Sanctuary GREETING CARDS & A3 Prints on application 🍃  Figure E 'Where have the Dandelions been?' Tom KNP Brumby 2021 Rehomed to NEBS Rembrandt soft pastels and Derwent colour pencils & faber castell polychromos on A3 white acid free sketch paper 225gm Photo reference from New England Brumby Sanctuary (NEBS) GREETING CARDS & A3 Prints on application 🍃  Figure D RED 'Where
have the dandelions gone?' May 2021 KNP Brumby rehomed to NEBS. White charcoal and derwent colour pencils & faber castell polychoromos on A3 Black canson paper 140gm Photo reference from New England Brumby Sanctuary (NEBS) GREETING CARDS & A3 Prints on application 🍃  Figure E 'Joey Eating
the Dandelions' Guy Fawkes Brumby rehomed to NEBS Derwent colour pencil and white charcoal on A3 black paper 140gm Photo reference from New England Brumby Sanctuary (NEBS) GREETING CARDS & A3 Prints on application 🍃  Figure F
'Arrow Boy Eating the wild Dandelions' 2021. KNP Brumby in the wild 2021. In china ink and rotring tikki graphic ink pens on white A3 canson paper 225gm. Photo reference by Karen Ferguson wildlife photographer GREETING CARDS & A3 Prints on application 🍃 Figure G 'I am the twilight of the wild dandelions, I am Shadow, I am a wild brumby.' 2022 Shadow in KNP' 2020/21 Rotring tikki praphic pens china ink white charcoal on white and graphite. A3 canson paper 225gm Photo reference Wild life photographer Karen Ferguson. GREETING CARDS & A3 Prints on application 🍃  Figure H 'Uncertain Days' Spirit of the mountain 2021 in Kosciusko Park 2020 Polychromos on black A3 canson paper 140gm Photo reference Reference Karen Ferguson wildlife
photographer GREETING CARDS & A3 Prints on application 🍃  Figure I ' I know where the dandelions lay' 2021/22
Mr Winx rehomed KNP Brumby ONE EYED CHAMPION BRUMBY Faber Castell polychromos
on A3 Black Canson paper 140gm. Reference from and Owned By AJBR, Brumby Rehomer. GREETING CARDS & A3 Prints on application 🍃  Figure J 'The wild dandelions are few now' 2022 Aurora KNP Brumby rehomed February March 2021 From Cooinbil, Coolamon Long Plains area. Was expecting Galaxy when caught. Colour Polychromos and white charcoal and willow charcoal on A3 white canson paper 225gm. Forever Rehomed to Bec Clark via Clearview Brumby Rescue. GREETING CARDS & A3 Prints on application 🍃
PROMETHEUSTHE PHILOSOPHY OF FREEDOM&'NATURAL SELECTION' OF NATURE
THE WILDERNESS AND WILD DANDELIONSAnnie, a beautiful orphaned filly, with a hopeful beginning and a sad end, was a reminder of how nature looks after itself. Annie confirmed the question of 'what is natural selection' . Thus it prompted the need for me to draw this beautiful filly. Annie's story begins around the end of September of 2021 with Karen Ferguson a wild life photographer. Annie was a little filly found orphaned by Karen Ferguson on one of her Photographic expeditions to Photograph brumbies, in the Kosciusko National Park. She rescued her and Nikki Alberts of White Alpine took her in, but despite all efforts she passed away suddenly to the forever fields of the dandelions. 🐎🐎Following are the written events as per the post in 'The Keepers Pocket - Photography by Karen Ferguson' FB page written by Karen on the post dated 30th October 2021, the post reads as follows, and quote:
"I've been wanting to share the story of this little girl, but waited out of respect for Hazel who lost her battle in the early hours of Friday morning. RIP beautiful girl...your battle was immense but you can rest now ❤ As luck would have it I came across Harry's mob, and I was excited to see them because I'd taken a photo of their new foal the week before but it wasn't very good. Mama was very protective and wouldn't allow me close enough, so I thought I'd pull over and see if this week would allow me a closer look. As I started walking towards the mob, I noticed Harry and Gus had their attention focused a little further down the hill, and I thought there must have been another mob close by. I took a few photos, and then got curious about why Gus was so agitated with whatever was down the hill. I headed down that way, but couldn't see another mob anywhere. I was about to turn around and sit with Harry and the mob when I noticed a little tail wagging from behind some trees. That's when I discovered Annie. I looked around for her mob and even though there was another mob not far away, they seemed to have no interest in her. She had take refuge in a little triangle of trees. It was her safety zone. She didn't appear to be injured, but she was weak and obviously hungry. I sat with her a bit, and she came out and suckled my hand but went back to her triangle when she realised there was nothing to be gained from my hand. It was late and I knew I couldn't leave her there alone, but I also knew I needed to find help. I reluctantly left her there and headed to a nearby campground to seek help. My pleas for help went unanswered at the campground, so I drove a little way up the road to get phone service. By this time I was getting frantic and planning to spend the night in the bush. Thankfully Nikki and Kyle answered my call for help and they came to the rescue. The three of us guided this little angel to their vehicle and she was such a trooper, making the task much easier than it could have been. So, Annie is now safely in the hands of White Alpine Equine being well taken care of. Apart from being dehydrated and very hungry she appears to be in good health. I'd had such a big day and I was exhausted, but I'm so glad I made that split decision to turn left instead of right. It was a chain of events that unfolded in just the right way to lead me to Annie, and I'm so grateful for the help I received in getting her to safety. I am certain she would not have survived out there on her own, and that little triangle of trees she had claimed as a safe zone would not have protected her from starvation or wild dogs. I cried most of the way home, mostly because I'm an emotional basket case at the best of times...but also because I was relieved that Fate had intervened and saved this beautiful little girl from certain death. ❤🐴❤🐴❤🐴❤" 🐎💕🐎 I like to think that the stallions Harry and Gus knew that Annie’s only chance was with humans, as nature works on natural selection. Instinct tells the horses or most other mammals really that one that will survive and the one that does not. Stories similar to Annie's are widespread, whether it be a horse, a donkey, an elephant, or a lion cub. 🐎🐘🐒 To strengthen this, In my last venture, to Clearview Brumby Rescue QLD, I also observed the difference in the domesticated horses to the wild brumbies. The brumbies, seem more still and calmer, they think before they act, they seem to have an independence because of this, that the domesticated horses do not seem to have, I put it down to the conditioning of the domesticated horse, as he from birth is directed and ordered, where the brumby was born free and in a equine family structure. The question of freedom as well as the natural selection, also became of value in the thinking process.
I then as I was drawing Annie, did a post while the drawing was at an unfinished stage. To note my thinking process. Here I related the natural selection to that of our conditioning. My Post was put up on St Valentines day 14th February 2022 and it read as follows; Not sure if everyone has heard of little Annie. She was a filly found in the wild by wild life photographer Karen Ferguson. Annie was alone, hiding between trunks of trees. She was rescued and White Alpine took her in. Despite their great efforts little Annie did not survive and eventually passed away. It broke many hearts hearing of her passing, and more so for Karen and White Alpine Equine. Wilderness is nature and nature works on the 'natural selection '. We are so far removed from the wilderness, that we don't understand nature as well as we should. Hence we recreated a world of citadels and try to control nature and contain nature, not thinking of the consequences of what we do to nature herself. These beautiful sentient beings belong in the wild. Nature wants them there and needs them there. We cannot change the past and our laws do not favour brumbies relating to the 'native' of things. Brumbies are post native and so are dandelions and many other fauna and flora. We cannot eradicate the past we should let nature re-establish herself and let her do what she does best, control her own wilderness by her natural selection of things. She will have a better answer than us. The drawing of Annie is not finished yet and is still in progress. My reference is one of Karen Ferguson's photos of when she first rescued little Annie. You can see Annie asking for help and love in those eyes. In which she got from Karen. As I draw her, she to me, as I stare at her she stares back and asks me, 'why?' I don't know why Annie, I really don't. But we are doing our best to try and save your brothers and sisters. My promise to you, Annie. And you turn away and I see you now happily running through the dandelions that are swaying in the breeze. I see also your mum who waits patiently to join you, with a tear in her eye and asks herself why. Syndy 🌬🐎💙" Because of Annie, the birth of ‘The philosophy of Freedom.’ became a thought as I was visiting a friend, Tracy Stirzaker, at her solo exhibition called 'More Myself, a journey of self love'.🎨🎨🎨 . We talked about empowerment and the self and about how one can change one's conditioning by re programming our thoughts on our 'self', as we were relating conditions and enlightenment, regarding nature and conditioned of one's environment. Annie had started the conversation as we were talking about natural selection and wilderness opposed to conditioning of our citadels and our family structures. A brumby that is in the wild, learns within their freedom and their family structure. Opposed to a domesticated horse, that is commanded and told what to do and taught to be amongst humans, unless their owner leaves them to be as in the wild. It was a very interesting conversation and topic and then we talked about maybe doing a group exhibition together, and the title came up. If we do a group exhibition it will not be all on Brumbies. I will though concentrate on Brumbies myself. Equitana is still on the cards for November 2022 and that is solemnly regarding brumbies. That will be a solo exhibition with one or two rehomers on toe. The drawing of Annie will eventually be up for sale but I need to keep her drawing for a while as I will be exhibiting in the year. Annie still belongs to the series of ‘Prometheus’ she is one drawing of a continuation of A3 drawings that once finished most will be up for sale and the photographic rights will remain with me as I will also use each photo of the artwork to create greeting cards and promotions of the plight of the brumbies. Please note that if you are interested in purchasing the Drawing of Annie, we can negotiate a time frame of purchase. I can email when she is ready for sale. Regarding my references, up to now I have used mainly Karen’s photographs as reference, Annie is also available as a photo from Karen, she has quite a few. 🐎💕 Other references used are from other Wild life photographers involved with brumbies. I also receive photographs from primary rehomers or as gifted by secondary rehomer to create the artworks. I now also have my own from my Clearview visit February 2022. I always note my references Unless using my artistic licence where many references are used and the artwork becomes its own identity. References 🍃 IDENTITY AND A WILD BRUMBY |
