Amazon Art and Design
This is my all-time favorite work of art presented here at Enlightened Horsemanship Through Touch. Unfortunately for me, it has been sold. I am very jealous of the lucky owner!
EDITED TO ADD: I have tried repeatedly and unsuccessfully to make these images link directly to Eleanor’s site with no success. Sorry Eleanor!
I “met” Eleanor Hartwell on Foxhunters Online. At the time, I was seeking to learn more about my favorite sport. Foxhunters online is a great place to learn from lifelong hunters, many of whom are masters and staff. Eleanor is the Huntsman (prof.) of Bridlespur Hunt in Bear Canyon, Missouri.
How I got my Amazon Art goods: Once I thought I might give Marksman Millie’s thin and scraggly tail a thorough going over to help it look more like a real tail. Percherons’ tails are notoriously sparse. You know how these things go. I ended up chopping off too much of the stringy stuff, so that Millie’s tail looked like the tails on those old paintings. Unfortunately, on a, ahem, big girl, such a tail made her look a fat tart wearing a mini-skirt. Such an indignity for an elegant and powerful lady. All anyone could do was console me by saying, “It’ll grow back—by the year 2040.”
Rather than dispose of the evidence of over-zealous hairdressing, I decided to send Millie’s chopped tail to Eleanor to have it made into a fly whisk. Eleanor made me the most amazing whisk, with an ash handle. The color of the wood compliments Millie’s salt and pepper hair beautifully, and I’ll always have something to remember her by. Millie taught me everything I ever learned about horses and riding, which admittedly isn’t much. But what I know I value all the more because she gave me the gift.
I love Eleanor’s site. There are treasures there. Amazon Art and Design
© 2009 enlightened horsemanship through touch and Kim Cox Carneal
I am looking to have a fly whisk made from my fjord horse who died unexpectedly in May. Do you still make these?
Thank you.
Sandy Biluk
Romeo, MI
Wow, nice fly whisks!
aren’t they? though the tail Eleanor had to work with to make mine wasn’t the silky, flowing kind pictured.
I agree…this is a spectacular piece of art. You have good taste!
I like to see a photo of Millie.
Lori
Isn’t it? i have to ask Eleanor if she can make me a print. I have it as my computer desktop and can’t stop looking at it. Those are “my colors” too. I have so few photos of Millie. Being a big girl, she didn’t photograph well. She came out all head and neck. The one I do have is not me riding her, and it’s tiny. Let me see if I can dig it up and post it later.
It’s surprising that I have only one photo of me on horseback–can you imagine?
I can’t stop laughing!!! A fat tart wearing a mini-skirt?!? You are too much, Kim.
Great idea, though. I have some horsehair from my old horses I’ve lost/sold and something like this would be a great way to memorialize them!
Michelle
I had the hardest time getting a sheet or blanket to fit her, too. Used to crack up the entire barn when I’d try a new one on her and it would look like she was wearing a tube top. I finally found some monster sized ones–can’t remember the brand–and she got the dignified clothing she deserved.
Do take a look at what Eleanor has to offer. She works directly with you to make a keepsake that you will treasure. I love mine. Even though I’m not riding now, it still sits in my front hall as if I might grab it on my way out.