Artist: Janee Hughes

“From stardust we have come, and to stardust we shall return,” writes Janee Hughes, an artist and writer from the Pacific Northwest as gifted with a pen as with a brush. “Between times, many have gazed in wonder at the night sky and thought they’ve seen figures in the arrangement of stars and galaxies. In centuries past, fertile imaginations have even gone so far as to conjure gods and heroes and tell their stories in terms of myths. Many involve the horse, our respected companion on earth, our friend in the heavens….”

Janee Hughes is a former art teacher and award-winning painter who also writes and illustrates children's books and stories. She spent four years painting hand-carved wooden horses for Salem, Oregon's Riverfront Carousel. She has owned horses for many years and understands how they act and move, and how they show their feelings - which is why more of Janee Hughes' designs have been crafted into figurines than any other artist.

Made of ceramic. Measures 6" high. From The Trail of Painted Ponies.