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Painting and sculpting in an expressive format allowed me to show the beauty I see in the horse. When I see a horse, that is all I see, the lines in there neck, the way they carry their head, their mane, their roughness and softness, all at the same time. Tough or gentle it all comes through in their eyes and "The Spirit of The Horse".

I wanted to stay away from pasture scenes, horses grazing in green lawns was too typical for me. I think when you see a horse everything around it changes color and shape.

The human element is left out of all but one of the paintings. "As One", a surreal painting, shows the change in the atmosphere and ones self when you are with a horse, this a true horse lover painting. No hardware on these horses.

As a young "city girl" I was fortunate to have a parent that helped me get near a horse and ride a horse. Then blessed to have a 4-H family that let me ride and show a horse named Beauty.

Little did I know that some 20 years later my passion for horses (which I would have to leave behind to raise a family) would collide with my other passion, art.

I want horse lovers to see these paintings. My story is not of an elite artist but of a woman who loves horses and puts her emotional connection with them into her paintings. I always wanted a picture of a horse that expressed to me how I felt about horses. But I could never find one. So as an adult artist I finally got to take my emotional connection and put it into my paintings and express the spirit of the horse with paint, pen, canvas, paper and metal.