Horses have been a theme of mine since I was a little girl. Over my life I have explored the equis as a theme in many media including painting, sketching, sculpture and digital format. In this series, I have adopted a mixed media technique where I start by painting with acrylic on paper, and then methodically tearing up the paper into random shapes, as a child might tear into wrapping paper. I then assemble the paper into series of colors forming the basis for the re-assemblage into a new image. These canvases then can be considered as a combination of acrylic paint and collage, a technique taught to me in collaboration by the artist Jim Ridlon, of Central New York. Though the horse theme is the basis for this series, other forms provide the backdrop, in some case the reason, for the horse. In a sense this series is in an abstract form of a painterly manner built up, or layered, by the tearing and ripping of other artwork, unrelated, yet once combined, related to the final piece.