The Working Horse Calendar

The Working Horse Calendar Overview

Robin Wheeldon’s beautiful and intricately detailed watercolour paintings in The Working Horse calendar all capture the power, patience and character of working horses and the vital role they played in times gone by when they were the mainstay of rural life. Different scenes are portrayed of these sturdy and powerful horses at work, individually or in pairs or teams, in all kinds of weather throughout the year, drawing wagons, ploughs and cultivating machinery.

One painting, entitled ‘Perfect Match’, depicts an identical pair of brown and white shire horses as they wait patiently at a ploughing match. Another shows a trio of horses pulling drilling machinery in a field at a steady pace, guided by a farmer. There’s a wonderful image on a single horse with a wagon piled high with hay as two men load on even more hay, watched by a sheep dog. Each painting sensitively conveys the strong bond that exists between horses and humans.