I was fortunate to grow up in an artistic household. My mother was a fine artist and art instructor, and my dad was an architect, so I always had plenty of art supplies and encouragement at hand. I've been obsessed with the horse in art ever since I can remember, and was taught by my mother to look at the animal as light and shadow, motion and emotion, and basically anything but the obvious details of the image. That I had to find on my own. As a youth, I studied equine anatomy and horse care books, and was a barn rat at the local stable. Since we couldn't...more
