Matthew Donohue: Coming Back to Horses Through the Lens
Sunday, May 07 2023
By Shya Beth
Matthew Donohue has traveled across the world with a camera in hand. From his teenage years of exploring the world from behind the lens while growing up in the States to packing and moving a world … [Read more]
- Published in Sidelines Feature, Sidelines Spotlight, Weekly Feature
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Monday, August 15 2016
“Stallion Persona” by Jayne Silberman
New Jersey Equine Artists’ Association’s seventh biennial national juried show and sale, “NJEAA Art of the Horse,” opens Sunday, October 16, with the artists’ reception to which all are invited from 2 … [Read more]
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
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.… [Read more]
- Published in Sidelines Feature
An Unlikely Artist
Monday, March 10 2014
By Katie Navarra
Barry Koster’s career as an artist could have been over before it even began. An elementary school teacher nearly failed him because he had “poor art skills.” Not willing to accept this fate for her son, … [Read more]
- Published in Sidelines Feature