My name is Cheryl Hoffman. I live in Orange County, CA with my husband and our 15-year old twins. The Paintd Phantom is a family business inspired by our horse of the same name. The images on our merchandise were inspired by Phantom and drawn by our daughter. We dream of the day when we have land and Phantom is one member of the herd in our back yard.
Phantom is a registered American Paint Horse. He is black, brown and white with blue eyes and his coloring is called a bay overo. When we first met Phantom he was a difficult to manage horse that had been donated into the therapeutic riding program where we volunteered. After he had several episodes of bucking and kicking during lessons he was expelled from the program. Our family took Phantom on, the kids and I started taking lessons with Rachael Brouelette (www.twoheartsnaturalhorsemanship.webs.com) and we began to learn the basics of Natural Horsemanship. It has become clear through our work that Phantom has a history of abuse. This was confirmed by the medical professionals that have worked with us. Phantom has been very receptive to this new way of interacting with humans and through the process has become a new horse. We now have a very sweet and affectionate horse.
10% of the profits from The Paintd Phantom go to support the work of local non-profits.
Contact Us At: thepaintdphantom@gmail.com
Thanks so much for visiting my blog and liking my photo! I appreciate it very much.
Hi Cheryl, thanks for visiting my blog, and many thanks for giving the chance to know about yours and to open me a door to know more about therapeutic riding in the US. All the best to you, your family, your busines, and last but certainly not least to Phantom.
Thanks for visiting my blog. Always fun to see what other artists are doing with horses! Glad to see that you were able to reeducate an abused horse and turn him into a loving companion.