The Project Horse Empowerment Center connects people with horses to deliver outstanding mental health and wellness services – helping children, teens and adults build coping skills, deal with emotional, behavioral, or cognitive challenges, manage stress, and enhance resiliency.

Founded 11 years ago by Darcy Woessner and her rescue horse Reeses, Project Horse provides therapy and wellness services for individuals, families and groups.
https://www.projecthorse.org

DETAILS:

• Online ticket sales end at noon on Friday September 27th.
• Additional live ticket sales will take place at our Diamonds, Denim & Hope fundraising event on September 28th, at Project Horse Empowerment Center.
• Live raffle entries will be and the drawing for winners 
• You need not be present to win.  Winners will be notified via email by October 1st, and all prizes will be mailed via the U.S. Postal Service by October 15th.

The Prize

• Oil Painting by Chris Stephens

  Retail Value: $1250
  
  The original oil on wood was painted by Chris Stephens and donated by Andrew Hayley, owner of Hayley Fine Arts in Sperryville, VA.  Chris Stephens is a local artist who uses vibrant colors to portray the sweeping landscapes of the Shenandoah Valley, achieving an alluring interpretation of the countryside.
  

  

  "I paint from life. My process is direct and uncluttered. I make individual marks, each based on something seen. I feel my way into the subject, looking for lyrical, organizing structures, discovered anew with each painting, like parallel diagonals or edges of forms intersecting at right angles.  Ideally, my paintings are simple accumulations of marks within a compositional structure. I constrain my work within a particular subject, and apply strong formats to evoke different emotional and visual possibilities. Color and paint have their own magic; I try to harness it. Color conveys my feeling of the experience. Oil paint is uniquely suited to hold the energy of the marks made in response to life; it's an alchemic substance.  My paintings begin with exuberance for light, subject and paint; I try to carry it through the whole process."

  http://haleyfineart.com/#/chris-stephens-gallery/
  
  *Note: Painting is 13 inches square
  
  DETAILS:
  *Online ticket sales end at noon on Sept 27th.
  *Additional live ticket sales and the drawing for winners will take place at our Diamonds, Denim & Hope fundraising event on Sept 28th.

  *Need not be present to win. Winners will be notified via email and prizes delivered via U.S. mail service.