Jennifer Mack’s Contemporary Fine Art
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
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
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
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