Pena Fan for Life

Hello all! My name is Heather and I’m an addict…ha ha!

I have literally been a Pena fan for life. When I was a child there was a unicorn print hanging in my bed room that I adored. Later in my teen age years I visited my grandparents in Oregon, went to the mall in Portland and caught my first glimpse of Pena’s Windstone Edition Sculptures and fell in love. I could never afford them so I literally collected the little brochures they released for the dealers. Then I found a full page advertisment for the Peacock Emperor and have kept that clipping for years.

Seven years I asked my parents every Christmas and Birthday for a Windstone Edition and every year they gave me some cheap resin knock off. Don’t get me wrong, I was greatful for my gifts. They were pretty and some were even more expensive but none were a Pena. One year I was helping to clean my parent’s room and came upon that same print hanging in my child hood bedroom and I thought, “My god, it’s a Pena!” Dated 1981…

This year my sweet darling husband gave my a hatchling for Christmas and a Fledgling for my birthday which is in the same week. So I finally decided to join the forums. Melody’s work has literally been with me my whole life, she has had such an influence on me, expecially as an artist.

So now that I myself am an artist and a certified framer, I rescued the print from my parents clutches to have it professionally framed and preserved.

Is their anyone who can help me identify this work, find out it’s history, value, edition, etc.? I wish I could talk to the artist herself, but I figure she is probibly too busy and I don’t want to bother her.