Jennifer Mack’s Contemporary Fine Art
Monday, November 30 2015
By Lauren R. Giannini Canadian artist Jennifer Mack isn’t like most horse painters. She perceives these magnificent creatures of energy and spirit as the epitome of freedom and always depicts them unbridled. Even on a 13-inch laptop, her horses, even the ones standing still, appear to explode off the screen in colors ranging from vivid
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Shya Beth — Artistic Wunderkind
Monday, October 26 2015
By Lauren R. Giannini For Shya Beth, who turns 15 next May, life on the farm in Sussex County, New Jersey, is just about perfect. She has ducks, chickens, geese, alpacas, cats, one donkey, a pony and two horses. Best of all, Shya and her mother, Mary Beth, share their passion for art and horses.
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Yvonne Todd — Animal Portraits, Naturally
Monday, October 26 2015
By Lauren R. Giannini As a child, Yvonne Todd loved gifts and her favorites provided the means to express her passion for art: a box of 64 crayons with built-in pencil sharpener from her mother and package of typing paper from her father. She found creative bliss among all the colors she used to fill
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Anita Baarns: Every Portrait Starts With the Eyes
Monday, October 26 2015
By Lauren R. Giannini Anita Baarns started out, to use her words, “doing very abstract works” and was even granted a U.S. patent in 1992 for her process of creating artworks by an application of crayon and ink. Obviously, her muse had other plans. While earning her bachelor of arts in studio fine arts at
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Keller Jones — Passion for Painting and Portraits
Tuesday, October 20 2015
By Taylor Renner As a young girl, Keller Jones was a typical barn rat. Copying drawings she found in equitation books growing up was the first sign that she possessed another passion besides horses: She had a passion — and gift — for art. Keller took her first painting class in the fifth grade and
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Julie Ferris — Life As An Equestrian Artist
Tuesday, October 20 2015
By Jan Westmark Julie Ferris was one of those kids who drew horses all the time. All of her friends asked her to draw horses for them, and she did. In high school, however, her teachers told her she wasn’t allowed to paint any horses because it was too “kitschy” a subject. It’s hard to
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Jennings Ingram — Modern-Day Monet
Saturday, October 17 2015
By Doris Degner-Foster If Claude Monet had been inspired to paint horses, it might look somewhat like Jennings Ingram’s work. Working in oils and acrylics, she paints horses in a contemporary impressionistic style, using bold brush strokes and paint drips. Jennings often works from the sketches she draws while watching horses competing. She remembered her
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Janet Crawford: A Life Revolving Around Ponies and Painting
Monday, July 06 2015
By Taylor Renner Janet Crawford Hicks has been passionate about art and horses for as long as she can remember. The New England equine artist, based in Massachusetts, focuses on classic portraiture of horses and dogs depicting the equestrian lifestyle as well as portraying candid moments that capture the true nature of the horse
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