It’s the Heliconian Club's first “arts and letters” show, written and picture portraits.
Portraits can be other and more than just people. Here are three of mine, a fourth is Turpentine the Studio Cat for many years.
They were on view along with many others, in “A Portrait by Any Other Name...” at the Toronto Heliconian Club.
Lily, aka Benno’s Fancy, has a blue eye. Her owner loves this distinctive feature.
I first saw Benno’s Fancy, in the junior division in the mid teens at a CornerStone Farms Dressage at Palgrave Event. She was a lovely pony, with a distinct identity, a blue eye and a very determined junior rider. She did not return. Instead she went on to a number of different careers, including western dressage and barrel racing, and the undignified moniker Bubbles. Now at a mature 17 years, with the name Lily which better suits her personality and maturity, she is back at Dressage. This time with a very determined senior citizen A/O rider who is finally getting her first experiences in the Big Rings of Palgrave and Angelstone. Good for you Lily doing what you do best with an owner who waited a long time to realize her childhood goals of horse ownership for herself.
Lily is actually a very dark bay, seen in the very subtle area around her muzzle and a warm tone to her “black” coat. Lily was a fun challenge!
Julie Tattersall and I first met at Ambercroft Farms in the 1960s. We connected through our mutual arts loves. Julie went on to a the professional horse career. Her career carried her all over. Julie was a legend in the Ontario horse show world. Always producing top quality competitors. Along her three daughters, Jane, Jennifer & Jacquie later Grandaughter Lola and many dogs, she part of the Canadian horse show world for over 50 years. We adventured together. I learned to drive a pick-up truck driving to the Kentucky Horse Park. Discovered you can hide a golf cart and forget it in the back of a trailer far from home. Had a wild Taxi ride to LaGuardia after see Leonard Cohen at Madison Square. Saw Canada Geese blacken the wet fields around Ottawa in spring breakup, and so on.
Julie passed in mid October 2021.
Di Langmuir is one of those people you meet and immediately Like. I’ve known Di for many years. When Alex was quite little, at Leitchcroft-CornerStone, Di included her in a workshop. The tiny person on the pony along with the bigger people on their horses. Good for Di. Good for Alexandra.
Di has had many of her fur family pictured, for herself or various associates. I was approached by one of her associates. The group needed a birthday present Di’s 60th, August 29 2021.
Happy Birthday Di. Pierre, aka French Leave, can now join all the others.
Pierre aka , French Leave, watercolour 10” x 8” August 2021
Pictures speak. Pictures came before words. Pictures are timeless. Pictures record our world.