About this painting:

Uta wanted to place this lovely (Minnesota) Icelandic (horse) into an almost transcendental scenery of colors which would complement the blacks and pale browns of her coat.  She found it in a photo taken at a prairie in a Canadian National Park. Besides the obvious splendor of the millions of Lupines and Sunflowers it was intriguing to her that the light in that photo seemed to come from everywhere.

She wants to believe that this horse's beautiful Spirit, now freed from a body worn and used up, crosses endless fields of flowers and grasses and perhaps would meet some of her beloved horses there.  Horses who have gone on ahead of her, in a moment between moments, surrounded by the scents of sun warmed fields and the sounds of eternal peace and freedom....

Our horses and us cross paths by design, frequently not understood until much later: Each of them connect heartstrings to us 'helpless' humans, so we can relearn the importance of innocent trust and profound honesty.  And when they pass on by way of this or that tragic circumstance, we find that we have become a little bit truer to Self, wiser to our Source, once the grief of loosing them has settled....This is their precious gift.'