Sculpture Information

To make the bronze miniature Palomo the full size Palomo in alabaster was scanned and then 3D reduced to one third of the size and printed in resin. The Resin was then cast in bronze.

I have called this horse Palomo after the tall dappled white horse ridden by Latin American liberator Simon Bolivar. It accompanied him on most of his campaigns of national liberation. The horse was presented to Bolivar an elderly peasant woman named Casilda. Years earlier she dreamt that the colt would be given to and ridden by a great general. The horse became Bolivar’s faithful companion on his many campaigns during the liberation struggle. After a long march, Palomo tragically died in the care of one of Bolivar’s officers. Palomo appears on the Venezuelan Coin and his horseshoes are in the museum of Mulalo.

The name Palomo means, ‘Dove’.