A mural celebrating Samuel Smith’s Brewery’s iconic shire horses has been painted on a boarded-up shop front close to its headquarters in Tadcaster.<\/p>\n
The artwork sits in the shadow of the brewery and the Angel and White Horse Inn – where the shire horses are stabled and remain one of town’s familiar sights.<\/p>\n
Local artist Claire Bentley-Smith said she created the mural as a tribute to the brewery’s owner, the late Humphrey Smith, and to the animals that deliver beer around the town. <\/p>\n
She added: “I’m lucky enough that the shire horses from the brewery come past my house every morning, and as an equestrian artist I’ve always found that incredibly inspiring.”<\/p>\n
Called Prince and Falcon, the brewery’s horses are used to deliver beer to the local pubs in and around Tadcaster five days a week. <\/p>\n
Bentley-Smith said she decided to paint the mural of the the animals after seeing the empty shop with boarded up windows on Kirkgate. <\/p>\n
The painter, who has worked as a commercial artist in Leeds for the past 25 years, said the mural has become a talking point for the town.<\/p>\n
“It’s sort of inspired the whole town to talk about how they feel about the loss of Humphrey Smith,” she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A mural celebrating Samuel Smith’s Brewery’s iconic shire horses has been painted on a boarded-up shop front close…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":575030,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[442,498,499,500,501,156,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-575029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=575029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575029\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/575030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=575029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=575029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=575029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}