Price range: $190.00 through $210.00
This artwork is on display at LRB Retreat & Private Gallery Experience.
It is not for sale online. You can view and purchase it in person at this location.
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Original black ink drawing of a woman embracing her horse, capturing quiet trust in loose, splattered strokes.
There is a moment every horse person knows. The work is done, the paddock has gone quiet, and you lean into that warm neck and simply breathe. You Are Mine, and I Am Yours holds that moment still. A woman with long dark hair presses her face into her horse’s neck, arms wrapped around him, his head lowered in complete acceptance. Nothing else appears on the page. No fence, no stable, no sky. Just two figures folded into each other, drawn in black ink that seems to keep moving even while it stands still. The title is not about ownership. It is the quiet promise two beings make when trust has been earned on both sides.
The drawing was made fast, in loose gestural strokes, because tenderness like this does not wait around for careful rendering. The ink was worked wet, the brush allowed to skid and drag, and the splatters were left exactly where they landed. Those dark flecks are not mistakes to be tidied up. They carry the energy of the moment, the dust and breath and heartbeat of a real embrace. Where the brush runs dry you can almost feel the horse’s coat under her hands. Where the ink pools you feel the weight of the animal leaning back into her. The large areas of bare paper are just as deliberate, giving the pair room to breathe.
The piece comes from Running Duck Studio in Dayboro, Queensland, a town where horses are simply part of daily life. Floats rattle down the main street, hoofprints mark the trails along the creek, and this exact embrace plays out in paddocks across the district every evening. That familiarity shows in the drawing. The horse’s lowered head, the way the woman’s shoulder fits under his jaw, the stillness in both bodies. These are details you only get right when you have stood in that spot yourself, smelling hay and warm hide while the light drops.
As an original work there is only one of these. It suits a hallway, bedroom or tack room wall where black ink can work against a plain background, and it makes a genuine gift for anyone whose best conversations happen over a stable door. Hang it where morning light reaches it and the splatter reads like dust kicked up in a yard. Under lamplight in the evening the blacks soften and the embrace feels even quieter. It arrives framed, so it is ready to hang the day it reaches you.
You Are Mine, and I Am Yours
This artwork is on display at LRB Retreat & Private Gallery Experience.
It is not for sale online. You can view and purchase it in person at this location.
