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Limited Edition 500 s/n Canvas
(with Certificate of Authenticity
including the true story and
historical references)

70 X 61

60 x 60

ALH.TW-A

$750

61 x 47

50 x 50

ALH.TW-B

$495

Artist's note:
  When I read this story I just had to paint it and I cried all the time that I was painting it. I remembered how my own horses had looked after me, treating me especially tenderly whenever I was unwell.

One day I was more unwell than I realised when I rode my young palomino mare, Doeline. Not long into our ride - about 150 metres - I couldn't see and dismounted, then fainted at her feet. She stood patiently waiting beside me as I lay unconscious for some time out in a lonely country paddock. She stood still for me to struggle back into the saddle, and she ever so carefully carried me back to our starting point. I dismounted, tied her to the hitching post and fell unconscious again. Altogether this happened over a 3 hour period.

So I know how it was with Taffy and Corporal Austin Edwards, but my horse waited for me and carried me to safety out in an quiet country paddock - Taffy did this for Corporal Edwards on a tumultuous and deafening battlefield, where all his instincts were telling him to flee from the noise and terror... but over-riding those instincts, his love, loyalty and concern for his rider bid him stay still amid the terrifying tumult- and wait.

A remarkable horse... a remarkable relationship!