Christy Dunn’s western art of horses and western life fuses her fine art equine photography with a rich, tactile mixed-media practice born from ancient encaustic traditions; she layers her own striking photographs onto wood panels and transforms them with melted beeswax blended with tree resins, hand-ground pigments, and controlled fire techniques to evoke the dust, heat, and quiet majesty of the West. Traveling the world to photograph horses in their varied landscapes, Christy infuses each piece with an intimate knowledge of animal spirit and a deep reverence for nature, letting wax, resin, and flame both preserve and reveal textures that mirror mane, muscle, and horizon. The result is sophisticated, deeply evocative work—images that are simultaneously photographic truth and weathered relic—capturing the beauty, resilience, and soulful poetry of western life.