Lauren Pitylak: Where Equine Photography and Fine Art Collide
Wednesday, June 15 2022
By Shya Beth
Up-and-coming 22-year-old artist Lauren Pitylak has a multifaceted worldview—a view that she shares with her audience through multiple forms of artistic media. Whether she’s in her studio painting or stepping off a plane for a photo … [Read more]
- Published in Weekly Feature
John Plishka: Rekindling His Artistic Fire
Tuesday, March 08 2022
By Shya Beth
John Plishka has a love for animals and history that has led him on a path to becoming a small animal veterinarian as well as an artist, and he’s had several once-in-a-lifetime adventures along the way.
Always … [Read more]
- Published in Sidelines Feature
Will Ersland: Brought Back to Horses by Art
Friday, January 21 2022
By Shya Beth
Will Ersland’s philosophy is that to be a great equine artist, you should be a good rider and know horses inside and out. That definitely could be said for Will, who has been constantly learning all things … [Read more]
- Published in Sidelines Feature
Mindy Colton: Sculpting a Passion for Horses
Monday, December 28 2020
By Shya Beth
Surrounded by horses all her life, sculptor Mindy Colton has followed her passion that has led her to explore the depths of the equestrian world. From showing in various disciplines to creating one-of-a-kind sculptures, Mindy’s love of … [Read more]
- Published in Sidelines Feature
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 … [Read more]
- Published in Sidelines Spotlight
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 … [Read more]
- Published in Sidelines Spotlight
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 … [Read more]
- Published in Weekly Feature
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 … [Read more]
- Published in Sidelines Feature
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 … [Read more]
- Published in Sidelines Spotlight
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 … [Read more]
- Published in Weekly Feature
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