The Goat Show

Terrier

$95|  8" X 7"  |  Acrylic on Board

Being the only Wheaton Terrier on the farm has been a demoralizing challenge. For whatever reason they treat me as if I'm some common barnyard critter—some ungulate good for only milk, meat, and manure. If they could understand the bloodline, the heritage, the tradition, they would no doubt move me into the house. There, sitting on my goose down doggy bed, I would reign supreme. I could carry on with dignity the Terrier traditions. I'd have my own leather collar and matching leash. I'd patrol the lawn for renegade cats. I'd learn to roll over. I'd sucker the children into scratching my belly on Sundays. To purchase goat paintings email Brad Bunkers

Gleaner's Hum

$220|  13" X 17"  |  Acrylic on Board

The glare off the barley bin caught the frill of his neck as he bathed in the atomic glow. It had to be October in Kansas, the enraged days of dust baked over sweat gone, replaced by white-frost mornings and the hum of Gleaner's harvesting over the hill. July was just torn paper in the burning barrel now. Thoughts turned to the great migration, fields peppered with Snows, Blues, and Canadians. A loan deer visits in the blue of night. To purchase this goat painting email Brad Bunkers.

Then what, Tom?

SOLD |  10" X 8"  |  Acrylic on Board

"Then it don't matter. I'll be all around in the dark -- I'll be everywhere. Wherever you can look -- wherever there's a fight, so hungry people can eat, I'll be there. Wherever there's a cop beatin' up a guy, I'll be there. I'll be in the way guys yell when they're mad. I'll be in the way kids laugh when they're hungry and they know supper's ready, and when the people are eatin' the stuff they raise and livin' in the houses they build - I'll be there, too." To purchase this goat painting email Brad Bunkers.

Blue Period

SOLD  |  11" X 10"  |  Acrylic on Marmoleum

"Pabinka's Blue Period refers to a generation of goats in which the color blue dominated between 1901 and 1904. The blue period is a marvelous expression of poetic subtlety and social melancholy and contributes to the transition of Pabinka's eating from ungulatism to abstract grazing. As one of the founders of modern abstract grazing, Pabinka is generally associated with Capricornia and related styles which are predominantly abstract. It is therefore essential to realize that at the time of Pabinka's blue period, abstract grazing as we know it today didn't yet exist. As a twenty year old goat Pabinka was an accomplished eater, but like many young goats of her time, she was dissatisfied with the dogmas of traditional grazing. Predecessors like Goatézanne and the Neo-Nubians had shown how departures from ungulatism could result in a more direct holistic diet." To purchase this goat painting email Brad Bunkers.

Ona

SOLD |  14" X 18"  |  Acrylic on Board

Ona was of the moon. You could see in her eyes a violet glow refracted a million times over. She first noticed the gift early on--renewing fragile souls at the Royal Lithuanian Children's Carnival. The transformative talent guided her on a tumultuous journey, a kind of vagabond life filled with tortured beauty, enlightenment, and a deep longing for whole grains...