Nica Quinn
I am a human being, full of life, full of paradox:
I am a dreamer but also a doer, I don't sit back and wait for things to happen to me.
I am an introvert who loves connecting with a lot of people.
I need uncomfortable adventures and travel, but also am a creature of comfort and love being home.
Everyday is a new chance to experience enchantment, creativity, and a sense of wonder for the world around me.
I was a child toting around sketchbooks, colored pencils, in my handmade bag that I wrote song lyrics and doodled in sharpies all over. My bedroom was an explosion of bright colors, collages, stickers, posters and I even painted on my walls and cabinets.
Everything was art.
I went to college for Graphic Design but I realized that it wasn't my passion, or at least, that's what I thought at the time. I needed to see the world before I could even think about getting a "real job."
And so I did.
I left the cornfields of Wisconsin and flew to New Zealand for a year with my best friend, working with horses, figuring out life, having wild adventures. And there, I met my future husband and together we now reside in his country – Scotland, a magical land that we now explore via hiking, biking, and wandering off the beaten path, allowing the land to reveal more hidden wonders.
It was in 2020 when the world shut down, we returned from our trip through South America, broke and confused where the world was heading. I turned towards the internet to start sharing some of the art I was creating at the time, the process I was going through in my unlearning with horses...
Since I was a child, I have always had an obsession with art... and horses.
My Journey
Pisces Sun / Aquarius Moon / Sag Rising + North Node
MG 2/4
Life's Work: Gene Key 55
I still have the vision of connecting people with nature and horses, but the ways in which I do that have drastically shifted over the years, and I have opened up to a whole new way of being because of it.
When I began to see what is wrong with the industry, with what we normalize doing with and to horses, I couldn’t unsee it. It felt like someone slowly tearing pieces of my heart away in small chunks at a time, one revelation after the next...
My journey with horses has been one from a distance for most of my life, but after being a trail guide in different places, wanting to share the special connection of being on a horse in nature with others, my perspectives shifted thanks to my catalyst, Merlin.
I took their symbolism of freedom as my own, using their bodies to carry me to liberation, through forests, over mountains, across beaches.
A ride of a lifetime,
Yes,
But now it’s time to slow down,
Walk beside them,
And relearn from the ground up
What it means to be free,
truly free.
For how I loved horses,
Was not love at all.
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