This work is a response to a specific aspect of New Zealand culture that appealed to Renata as an artist. An exhibition at Sola Cafe of these works in October 2006 was to the memory of Barrie Carruthers who, until his passing in June, 2006, was her friend and neighbour. He provided Renata with a sense of extended family here in New Zealand so far from her own family in Poland. Barrie was a outdoors man who loved horses and Renata felt it was a fitting way to pay her respects.