"The Perfect Life of the Purple Piggie",
a special commission painting for

The Farm Sanctuary black-tie Gala for Farm Animals on May 22nd

Acrylic 18 x 24 Original
Available: Original at Auction

Please contact the artists if you would like a print of this image to benefit the Farm Sanctuary at info@liznicholas.com

In 1986, Gene and Lorri Bauston found a living sheep abandoned on a stockyard "deadpile." They rescued the sheep, named her Hilda, and created Farm Sanctuary. Within ten years, Farm Sanctuary became the nation’s largest farm animal rescue and protection organization. Most farmed animals are raised on factory "farms," where they spend their entire lives in cages or crates so small that they can not even turn around. Farmed animals are not protected from cruelty under the law. In fact, the majority of state anti-cruelty laws specifically exempt farm animals from basic humane protection — so abandoning a sick animal on a pile of dead animals is considered “normal animal agricultural” practice
Farm animals are living, feeling animals, not agribusiness “commodities.” Farm Sanctuary is working to change the way society views and treats animals used for food production.

"The Perfect Life of the Purple Piggie, is a painting done of one of the lovely animals which escaped factory farming, and now lives happily at the Farm Sanctuary. This image captured something so special for me; a happy and smiling expression like no other. I could not resist painting this wonderful soul. I await the day when I can bask in the sun, and kiss my favorite little purple piggie in person!"