Meet the Team |
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The NFED was created and is run by Steve and Claire Kitcher under the trading name of CK Art - NFED. Claire is an established artist specialising in equine - animal art and New Forest scenes. In between running the NFED and looking after and riding our horses, we also produce and supply fine art prints, picture frames and create and run websites for others including the New Forest Livestock Society.
We breed New Forest ponies under the "Brushwood" prefix and are small commoners with just a few ponies running on the forest under the "CMK" brand, normally in the Burley/Wilverley/Brockenhurst area. We have our own land at Wootton were we keep our horses and have several youngstock scattered around the area in fields that we have rented, begged or borrowed in the best commoning tradition!
The NFED is run from our small home in the village of Sway in the New Forest. As nearly all communication is carried out online and we work from home, there is no need to keep to office hours and we can be contacted 365 days a year at any reasonable time of the day. Everything from the website design, to photography and graphics is carried out in house between the two of us. This gives a unique personal service, helps to keeps running cost to a minimum and makes the NFED very efficient to run with updates made regularly throughout the day. Very few sites if any can match this, one of the reasons why over the years the NFED has become so successful. The cost savings are passed on to the users, giving great value for money to advertisers. Since its launch in 1999 the site has received several awards and was a runner up in the prestigious Hampshire Web Awards 2007 in the interactive category. Unlike many websites that hide behind PO boxes and redirected phone numbers, we believe in absolute openness. The address and phone number is our home and the mobiles are our personal phones, in fact we often answer queries from horseback which can make communication interesting, but we will call you back. The NFED is intended to cover all aspects of horses and riding in the central southern area, we are very keen to promote and help the New Forest and support commoning where ever possible. We hope you enjoy using the NFED and always welcome your comments and suggestions. If you appreciate the NFED, the most important thing to do is tell others about it.
To see more of Claire's paintings visit here site at www.ckart.co.uk. For anyone interested in the technical side!
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