QuarterHorse

The Quarter Horse's story began with a summer 2001 visit to Santa Fe,  where Kathy first discovered HorsePower New Mexico, a public charity art project featuring life sized horses (later to become known as The Trail of Painted Ponies). As both an artist and horse enthusiast, Kathy wondered how she could convince New Mexico to let a Jersey girl into their project. Since she  often incorporates letters and words in her mixed media art, she created a series of sketches for a horse that would ‘say’ something. However, after the shock of 9/11, those plans were set aside to instead create a horse specifically designed for America.

After literally receiving clues in a dream, Kathy experimented with a quarter  as a reference to the horse breed and discovered the coin’s features also lent themselves to enhance the existing contours of the horse. By focusing on the eagle and selected words of a quarter, an opportunity to reflect an additional theme of national allegiance emerged. She then created a one of a kind maquette sculpture and from this, The Trail of Painted Ponies, with Westland Giftware, fashioned the Quarter Horse figurines and other merchandise.

The Quarter Horse figurine was retired in 2004 and has become a rare highly sought after collectible by serious Trail of Painted Ponies collectors. Kathy also creates rare custom  one-of-a-kind Painted Ponies and enjoys incorporating her fine art methods and techniques on the horse forms. Commissioned one-of-a-kind Painted Ponies are also accepted. To view some of Kathy’s recent custom  one-of-a-kind Painted Ponies, click here.

The actual quarter that

inspired the Quarter Horse for

the Trail of Painted Ponies

How a NJ artist’s dream and a quarter became horses for all of America

Custom One-of-a-Kind Painted Ponies and rare, retired signed first editions of Kathy’s Quarter Horse are occasionally on eBay!

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Custom

One-of-a-Kind

Painted Ponies!

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Original Quarter Horse Maquette Sculpture, Photo by Walter Gilligan

Photo by Susan Kozlowski

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To view some of Kathy’s recent custom
one-of-a-kind Painted Ponies click here