RETIRED!

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Height 6"

Ceramic

Artist: Marianne Hornbuckle

Sponsor: Santa Fe Youth Symphony

"Apparoosa began life as a computer design: a small rose-covered pony on a sheet of paper. When the life-size pony was delivered to my studio on a cold February day, it was exciting to imagine that blank 3-D surface growing from a sketch to a riotous display of multi-hued roses in bud and bloom, sprouting from earthen hooves and thorny branch-covered legs..."

"At first, I painted under directional light from overhead, but as the air warmed with spring, I opened the doors wide each day so each bud and blossom sprang to life in full sun. Not a single rose was repeated, and the dimensionality created by fully lit blossoms and buds on her graded neutral background gave her a depth I could not have imagined or achieved in a computer design. I dubbed her Rosie, and as she departed her first stable on a warm May day, the three real rose bushes by the studio door bloomed more profusely than any past spring, as if to compliment her radiant and unusual beauty."

SORRY - OUT OF STOCK!
We will NOT be ordering more of this pony!