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This pencil study is my youngest son, Brandon and my Arabian, D�Artagnan. Brandon was around 8 and D�Artagnan, around 6 � 8 months. It was a great moment I happened to catch on Tom�s Nikon; the interaction, the genuine kindness and nuzzling was too much for me not to render. Horses actually do a thing some times, where they will take their head and hold you to them, as if hugging you. D�Artagnan still does this on a rare occasion when I have the time to just hang around him for no reason, and it is beautiful and a little frightening, at once you can feel the immense strength in his neck ― and the gentleness.

Parts of my story are integral to why I do what I do, what motivates me and the emotions and ideas I am trying to convey through my work. CS Lewis said, in Till We Have Faces... The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing, to reach the Mountain, to find the place where all the beauty came from, my country, the place where I ought to have been born. Do you think it all meant nothing, all the longing...The longing for home...For indeed it now feels not like going, but like going back. My mother told people the first thing I ever drew was a horse before I was three in the dust on the kitchen floor of the little white clapboard parsonage in the North Woods of Wisconsin. In 1963, our family took a trip Out West to Vancouver, BC,...