A Sporting Horse is my acrylic tribute to showjumping, painted directly onto an authentic Hermès Sport scarf designed by Benoît-Pierre Emery and first released in 2013. The scarf's graphic, puzzle-like design abstracts the letters spelling “Hermès Paris” and “Sport” into a grid alongside stylized tennis courts, football pitches, and running tracks, finished with an Olympic-style track of orange lines around the border.
I painted the horse using only navy and white in transparent layers, so the scarf's original design shows through, and rendered just the shadows and highlights to give the flat, mounted silk the illusion of three-dimensional texture. The anatomy, reins, and tack are all captured with precision. The 90 cm vintage scarf is stretched and mounted to a custom board, its hand-rolled edges left overhanging to showcase the handmade detail that makes vintage Hermès pieces so valuable, and the original is finished in a metallic silver float frame.
