Thank you for visiting the Stan Herd website. Over the next few months we will be making some major changes to the site but for now we wanted to showcase a few of Stan's more recent projects. A new site and big announcements are on the way!

Prairiehenge


A one hundred ton stone sculpture created in tribute to the Osage Indians and last remnant tallgrass prairie in the United States. Located on the Red Buffalo ranch in SE Kansas the artist collaborated with TV journalist and owner Bill Kurtis whose vision for the ranch melded with the artists environmental activism.

Actors Saeed Jaffrey and James McDaniel appearing in Director Kevin Willmott's new Independent film "Bunker Hill" with Prairiehenge as backdrop.

Da Vinci's Glider


Stan Herd and entreprenuer Sir Richard Branson meet in Salina Kansas for pilot Steve Fossetts round the world flight. The artist created a one acre design of da Vinci's glider under flight pattern to pay tribute to Branson and Fossetts risky challenge.

Da Vinci's glider carved from a clover field just off the runway at Salina Kansas airport.

Sheikh Maktoum


Portrait of The ruler of Dubai, Sheikh Maktoum bin Rashid al-Maktoum who was also Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE, a federation of seven Gulf states.

This tribute portrait was created months after the ruler of Dubai and famed horseman passed away on 4 th January 2006. The image, in part created to bring attention to the building of anti-Arab bias in the United States post 9-11, has led to a relationship with US trained Khalid Latif, a Pakistani expert in East/West relations regarding a proposed portrait series of moderate leaders who are helping form those relations. The portrait concept was inspired of Mr Latif, and found life with the first earthwork portrait of Sheikh Maktoum.

The artist and Mr. Latif are pursuing a number of projects around the world, hoping to bridge cultural, religious and political differences.

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About Stan Herd
For over 20 years the artist Stan Herd has worked the earth using indigenous materials to produce evocative and mystical works. From 160 acre plowed portraits to one quarter acre intimate stone designs, his work has become a platform for discussion of mankind's contemporary relationship to the land.

"...with a profound sensitivity to the implications of his art, Stan Herd combines an awareness of the prairie soil in his native state with a global concern for humanity, and his imagery offers a new and dramatic prospect for the interrelationship of all three."
Joni Kinsey,Plain Pictures, 1996

"When first viewing my work, many people think they are looking at a photo retouched or computer enhanced image. This couldn't be further from the truth. The imperfections inherent in an artform which depends on wind, rain, temperature, insects, and living vegetation reveals an art whose evolving form is measured by the beauty of the struggle."
Stan Herd, March 1998