A large photograph of a sculpture of two horses is now up on Woodside’s Village Hill, a publicly owned grassy slope along Woodside Road that overlooks downtown and is home to thousands of daffodils that bloom in the spring.
The fundraising campaign for the $100,000 sculpture is about $20,000 short, said campaign spokeswoman and Woodside Landscape Committee member Phyrne Osborne in an e-mail announcing plans to install the photograph.
In September 2008, the Town Council unanimously approved plans to install the slightly larger-than-life bronze renderings of a mare and a foal, the work of Colorado-based sculptor Veryl Goodnight.
The committee will have a booth at the annual Day of the Horse celebration on Saturday, Oct. 10. The sculpture will not have riders, a council decision that sidesteps the issue of whether it would feature English or Western saddles.
Since it is a piece of public art, the project is set for a review by the town’s Architecture and Site Review Board on Oct. 5, Ms. Osborne said. To comment, send e-mail to ASRB planner Sage Schaan at SSchaan@woodsidetown.org.
For more on Ms. Goodnight’s work, go to www.verylgoodnight.com.
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