Horse and Pony Sales Retired Ponies

Painted Ponies - Grandfathers Journey Ref: PP1589

From The Trail of Painted Ponies. Grandfather's Journey. Made of ceramic. Measures 6" high.

Artist: Buddy Tubinaghtewa (Hopi)

Sponsor: The Trail of Painted Ponies

As a young boy growing up on the Hopi mesas of Northern Arizona, Buddy would accompany his grandfather, a Hopi war chief, as he made his rounds on the back of a donkey, checking on the corn fields and herding sheep. Years later, when he developed into a multi-talented artist, collected by enthusiasts from around the world, Buddy would credit his grandfather’s gift for storytelling with the imagery – Kachina figures, corn maidens, lightning storms – that found its way into his cottonwood carvings, his mystical oil paintings and his fabulous Painted Pony.
Price: £32.99

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Painted Ponies - Ghost Horse Ref: PP1544

From The Trail of Painted Ponies. Ghost Horse. Made of solid resin. Measures 6" high.

Artist: Bill Miller (Stockbridge-Munsee Mohican Nation)

Sponsor: John Garcia

A Mohican Indian from northern Wisconsin, Bill has long been one of the most admired figures in the Native American music arena. His album “Ghost Dance” brought him Artist and Album of the Year at the 2000 Native American Music Awards. As talented a painter as he is a songwriter, Bill dug deep within his music and his art to create a spiritual memorial to the massacre at Wounded Knee. With the words to “Ghost Dance” written on the horse beside the portrait of a warrior who fought the White Man but is able to overcome bitterness with faith in a better tomorrow, Bill has created a powerful and original artwork.

"As a Native American musician and visual artist, I consider my art and my music gifts to be from my Creator. It was a special challenge to be able to paint on something other than canvas, especially a full-size pony. I believe it brought out a new me. The artistic environment in Santa Fe, the experience of painting in a studio surrounded with other beautifully painted ponies, and the opportunity to 'give back' was a surreal and spiritual experience for me. 'May you always ride a painted pony down the Red Road.'"
Price: £32.99

Painted Ponies - Incognito Ref: PP1524

From The Trail of Painted Ponies. Incognito. Made of solid resin. Measures 6" high.

Artist: Janee Hughes

Writes Janee Hughes, a former art teacher and book illustrator from Salem, Oregon, "Biologists are not in agreement about the purpose of a zebra's stripes. Some say the wonderful patterns act as camouflage in the tall grass, but others say the stripes confuse predators. When a lion sees a herd of zebras, it is difficult for her to distinguish one animal from another in order to single out a potential victim. Whichever the case may be, it was great fun creating a herd of Grant’s zebras living 'Incognito.'"

Price: £32.99

Painted Ponies - America Dream Horse Ref: PP12209

From The Trail of Painted Ponies. Painted Lady . Made of ceramic. Measures 6" high.

Artist: Barbara Quimby

"Painted Ladies" is a term often applied to resplendent Victorian houses, brightly painted and expertly restored. Armed with this knowledge, New Mexico artist Barbara Quimby cleverly conceived of a Painted Lady Pony, a dolled-up equine celebration of the Victorian spirit as it lives today.
Price: £32.99

Painted Ponies - Horsepower to Burn Ref: PP12226

From The Trail of Painted Ponies. Horsepower to Burn. Made of ceramic. Measures 6" high.

Artist: Rich Mattson

Sponsor: A NASCAR fan

He came of age in the '50s, when hotrods and drag racing were "cool," when flames and checkered flags were stock images in car magazines. Years later, after three-decades teaching art and coaching basketball and winning an award as the New Mexico Art Educator of the year in 1988, Rich would draw on those times, those memories, when he was encouraged to paint a Pony by a NASCAR fan.

Price: £32.99

Painted Ponies - Gift Horse Ref: PP12225

From The Trail of Painted Ponies. Gift Horse . Made of ceramic. Measures 6" high.

Artist: Misty Lynn Auld

In celebration of the way Painted Ponies have become the perfect gift for holidays, birthdays and anniversaries, we asked Misty, an artist from Columbus, Ohio who is a member of League of Animal Artists, to create a Pony that would be appropriate for every gift-giving occasion. Standing on a beautifully wrapped purple package, dressed with cakes, party hats, streamers, balloons and presents, and wearing a candy-colored halter, "Gift Horse" is a virtual Painted Pony party that is as much fun as it is innovative.

Price: £32.99

Painted Ponies - Painted Lady Ref: PP12211

From The Trail of Painted Ponies. Painted Lady . Made of ceramic. Measures 6" high.

Artist: Barbara Quimby

"Painted Ladies" is a term often applied to resplendent Victorian houses, brightly painted and expertly restored. Armed with this knowledge, New Mexico artist Barbara Quimby cleverly conceived of a Painted Lady Pony, a dolled-up equine celebration of the Victorian spirit as it lives today.
Price: £32.99

Painted Ponies - Earth, Wind and Fire Ref: PP1545

From The Trail of Painted Ponies. Earth, Wind and Fire. Made of solid resin. Measures 6" high.

Artist: Bill Rabbit (Cherokee)

Sponsor: Oasis Gift Show

Read this Cherokee artist’s resume and you will understand why he is listed in Who’s Who in American Art. A Vietnam veteran whose personal philosophy is "Everything is an experiment. That goes for life, for art and for painting a Pony," Bill adorned one side of his Pony with a portrait of a Plains Indian warrior, and the other with a serene Pueblo scene. Asked for his inspiration, he wrote, "From the Great Spirit and Mother Earth, all things are made."
Price: £32.99

Painted Ponies - Native People's Pony Ref: PP12224

From The Trail of Painted Ponies. Native People's Pony. Made of ceramic. Measures 6" high.

Artist: Frank Salcido

"As an artist, I have always had this vision of different cultures around the world coming together sharing their beliefs, customs, blending as one on this small planet we call Mother Earth," says Frank Salcido, a Navajo from the Standing House Clan, living in Portland, Oregon. With both sides of his Pony's face represented by Aztec and Mayan warriors, adorned with tribal figures from an Australian Aborigine to an African Masai woman, Frank has fulfilled his artisic mission of using positive themes to contemporarily showcase traditional lifestyles.

Price: £32.99

Painted Ponies - Caballo Brilliante Ref: PP1456
From The Trail of Painted Ponies. Caballo Brilliante (Brilliant Horse). Made of solid resin. Measures 6" high.

Artist: Roger Montoya

Sponsor: Good Hands Gallery

Hispanic artist Roger Montoya is a nationally recognized renaissance figure, as well known for his dance performances as he is for his landscape paintings. He served as Artistic Director of this Pony, assembling a team of some 50 people, ranging in age from 5 to 81, from a New Mexico village. First, they trooped out to local riverbeds and dumps that had not been used for twenty years to gather glass bottles and ceramic jugs. Under his direction, the materials were smashed, collected and applied to the surface of the Painted Pony, forming a kaleidoscopic mosaic surface that has to be seen to be believed. As if that were not enough, the original "Caballo Brilliante" rotates on a solar-powered turning device that captivates viewers with a reflective dance of color and light.
Price: £32.99

Painted Ponies - Renewal of Life Ref: PP1467

From The Trail of Painted Ponies. Renewal of Life. Made of ceramic. Measures 6" high.
Artist: Natasha Isenhour

Sponsor: Socorro Chamber of Commerce

Natasha's travels abroad and around the Southwest have fueled her love for interpreting the "magical landscapes" she has witnessed. A dawn seen through mists hovering over the Rio Grande River that flows through a bird sanctuary in southern New Mexico inspired this work of art. Natasha used color, contrast, and countless glazes to create a sensational work of equine art. Whether she is painting on a canvas or a Pony, this artist has a unique ability to create a spiritual luminescence that invites the viewer to enter a meditative space that seems to live inside her art.
Price: £32.99

Painted Ponies - Thunderbird Suite Ref: PP1582

From The Trail of Painted Ponies. Thunderbird Suite. Made of solid resin. Measures 6" high.

Artist: Joel Nakamura

Sponsors: Advanced Hearing Clinic, R. Bateman, P. Epple, M. Epple-Nibbelink, M. F. McGinnis, G. Sadler Family

"The Thunderbird glided across the sweeping plains of the West. A harbinger of rain and new life, the great bird was both feared and revered. The blink of its eye could cause bolts of lightning to flash; the flap of its wings could create thunder. It was said that a young warrior both brave and fast enough to ride his horse under the bird's great shadow would gain sacred spiritual powers. In the calm before the rains would fall, if you listened carefully, you could hear singing and the music of the Great Spirit...

"I chose the Thunderbird myth as a vehicle for this project because it evoked images of the horse and music. The legend of the great bird is almost archetypal throughout America."
Price: £32.99

Painted Ponies - Tropical Reef Ref: PP12207

From The Trail of Painted Ponies. Tropical Reef Horse . Made of solid resin. Measures 6" high.

Artist: Laurie Holman

Seahorses come in an amazing variety of sizes and shapes, and have the ability to instantly change color, camouflaging themselves as seaweed or coral. By brilliantly covering her Pony with tropical fish, rendered realistically, overlapping and swimming in all directions, Laurie, a high school art teacher “in an isolated, dusty border town in far West Texas” who scuba dives as a hobby, has created a seahorse-of-a-different-color.
Price: £32.99

Painted Ponies - HorseFeathers Ref: PP12206

From The Trail of Painted Ponies. Horsefeathers . Made of solid resin. Measures 6" high.

Artist: Jeanne Selby

Nobody seems to know the derivation of the term "horsefeathers." The most likely explanation is it began as a sanitized variant of "horse hooey", used to express the view that something is unlikely, about as improbable as that pigs might fly... or that horses should have feathers. By adorning her Pony with large, multi-colored feathers, this former art teacher from Texas has given the term a totally new form of expression.
Price: £32.99

Painted Ponies - Kitty Cat's Ball Ref: PP1585

From The Trail of Painted Ponies. Kitty Cat's Ball. Made of ceramic. Measures 6" high.

Artist: Elizabeth Lewis Scott

Sponsor: The Trail of Painted Ponies

"Here is what happens when daytime-snoozing feline souls cut loose by the light of the new moon. They jig and waltz, slide a sinuous tango and pound out a mad polka," says Elizabeth, an avid horsewoman, Pony Club mom, and associate member of the American Academy of Equine Art from Huntsville, Alabama. "By day, we only see those half-smiles on snoring kitty faces as they grace our chairs and sofas, or doze in the garden beneath the lilacs. They grin from within as they recall the gavotte from the night before and shiver with delight, dreaming of the next Kitty Cat’s Ball."
Price: £32.99

Painted Ponies - Saguaro Stallion Ref: PP1523

From The Trail of Painted Ponies. Saguaro Stallion. Made of solid resin. Measures 6" high.

Artist: John Geryak

A former Creative Director with a New York marketing agency, John has enjoyed a successful second career in the arts after moving to Scottsdale, Arizona, where his paintings focus on highly personalized, contemporary interpretations of Nature. His extraordinary rendering of the wondrous effects of a moonrise and sunrise on a stand of saguaro cactus captures John’s goal as a painter, which is "to offer new dimensions in how we see our one-of-a-kind desert landscape."
Price: £32.99

Painted Ponies - Skyrider Ref: PP1509

From The Trail of Painted Ponies. Skyrider. Made of solid resin. Measures 6" high.

Artist: Wendy Wells-Bailey

The Hopi believe that when their elders pass on they continue to exist among the clouds, where they protectively watch over their descendants. Wendy, a graduate of the London School of Fine Art who feels her spirit dwells in the deserts, mesas and canyons of the Southwest, has taken this belief to new heights, literally, imagining a Pony stampeding across the sky on a glorious journey, collecting the faces of the ancestors and becoming one with the Cloud People.
Price: £32.99

Painted Ponies - On Common Ground Ref: PP1470

From The Trail of Painted Ponies. On Common Ground. Made of ceramic. Measures 6" high.
Artist: Patricia Wyatt

The unity and harmony of the feminine spirit resound in the vibrant art of California-raised Patricia Wyatt, who now lives in Santa Fe. As with her paintings, her Pony tells a story that speaks to the timeless themes of companionship and the collective power, wisdom and beauty of women around the world. Animals and lush flowering plants surround the figures on the artist's Pony, emblems of the natural world that pay tribute to the Earth, whose mysterious power awakens us all to life and connects all things.

Price: £32.99