Press Release: America's Wild Horses Exhibit Opens September 1 at Fauquier Hospital in Warrenton, Va

For immediate Release:

Coming to Warrenton, Virginia in September 2017:  

Watercolors by artist Linda L. Martin, in a two month exhibition titled: Wild Horses of America.  Samples from the collection will be available to see at the Fauquier Hospital in Warrenton, Virginia from September 1 until October 31.  Hours are normal main lobby hours for the Hospital.

The 22 plus paintings are specially chosen from the Mustang A Day Challenge. The challenge was to paint one horse a day, 5 days a week and post the paintings and sometimes stories with additional photographs, on her MustangADayChallenge blog.

Linda was able to paint over 700 wild Horses from 2010 through 2016. References for the works came through collaboration with boots on the ground wild horse advocates and photographers.

 The paintings in the collection are available for sale. A portion of the proceeds from each item sold will go to wild horse specific charities such as  The Mustang Heritage Foundation,  Chincoteague Pony Rescue,  Corolla Wild Horse Fund,  and individual Photographers who document wild horses on the range and supplied  reference photography for the project.

Linda is a resident of Remington, Virginia where she lives and has her studio.


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How the Mission to Paint a Daily Painting of North America's Wild Horses came about.

The Mission of the Mustang A Day Challenge, a personal challenge of Linda L Martin was to paint a living wild horse ever day 5 days a week for a year. The project started in July of 2010 with the first paintings reaching the internet By December of that year.

"Just A Kiss"
Picasso and Monet of Sand Wash Basin
8 by10 Watercolor

The inspiration for the Mustang A Day Challenge came from Linda's involvement in the Sand Wash Basin Herd and Nancy Roberts of Colorado. Nancy started documentation and a page on Facebook. She invited those who followed the page to help her name the horses for identification purposes. Linda's name for a bay stallion was chosen and she followed the stallion and helped confirm his ID for the remainder of his life on the range. The Stallion was named Jimmy Dark Sand.


The Mustang A Day Challenge was actually extended until over 700 of North America's wild horses were painted for the project. Any horse whose origin was wild free roaming in North America was eligible for the project. Included are three East coast herds included Corolla, NC and Assateague Island, Virginia. Linda told the horses stories as related by the photographers, wild horse adopters, landowners, rescues, advocates, trainers and employees of the BLM and National Park services, and State managed Herds were shared with the paintings on the Mustang A Day Challenge Blog.

"Two Socks"
Corolla, Noth Carolina
Outer Banks Wild Horse
8 by 10 Watercolor

Through out the Mustang A Day Challenge many of the paintings were purchased by owners of adopted Mustangs. Other paintings were set aside to share with the general public and help tell the stories of the horses.

Artist Linda Martin will select paintings for the Autumn 2017 Show that will represent wild herds from many states in the USA that have free roaming wild horses including Virginia.

A portion of the proceeds from each painting sold goes back into documentation, adoption or advocacy of the herds represented.

For more information on the purchase and support of the Mustang A Day Project contact Linda Martin through info@LLMartin.com

About the Artist:

Artist Linda L Martin has been a resident of Fauquier County since 1996. Previous to that she lived and worked in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia painting horses and wildlife in a folk realism style.

   Since graduation from Stetson University in 1978, Linda has  been an advocate of artists using alternative venues whenever possible to put their work before the public. It has been a more direct and populist notation over the years to take art directly to the people where they are.

Using alternative venues has also placed Linda's work before more than a million people from 1993 to 2003 when one of her paintings was purchased by the Nerangis Corporation to be exhibited with other regional artists in a McDonald's Just east of Winchester, Virginia.  The venue was located on a huge tourist corridor with a lot of historical significance.  At the time the local community made it mandatory that local artists and crafts people must be included in the décor as a stipulation for the restaurant to be built.

Linda has been represented from time to time by galleries but finds she enjoys more direct contact with people.  Her most recent connections to Fauquier locations has been through Fox Den Antiques in Warrenton until 2008.  The Studio Frame Shop in Warrenton to present.

For more information on original art and pieces by commission you can contact Linda at info@LLMartin.com