International Equine Artists Focus

IEA

Walker, Moore, Matsuda and Michael

VL

October 2013 Volume 2 No. 10

VL

VISUAL LANGUAGE

contemporary fine art

VL Carol J Walker IEA

2 | VL Magazine - VisualLanguageMagazine.com

Signature Member

www.internationalequineartists.com

Carol’s passion for photography started at an early age, with animals as her favorite subjects. She studied literature and photography as an undergraduate at Smith College, and continued her education in photography after graduating, studying portraiture and nature photography. She has travelled all over the world photographing wildlife for the past 30 years.

In 2000, Carol started her business Living Images by Carol Walker, specializing in photographing horses.

Carol’s images illuminate the relationship between horses and their people, as well showcase the beauty of horses with her stunning images of horses at liberty. She teaches workshops for amateur photographers on equine photography.

Her commercial work includes catalogue covers for leaders in the Equine industry. She has had numerous calendars published featuring her work, and she markets her fine art prints from her website www.LivingImagesCJW.com as well as in several locations on the Front Range of Colorado. Nine years ago, Carol began photographing wild horses. As she followed several herds in Wyoming, Colorado and Montana, she became aware of how precarious their situation on public lands has become. Since then, she has dedicated herself to educating people with her photographs and stories about the wild horses. She is one of the leading advocates working to keep America’s wild horses wild and free on our public lands.

Her book Wild Hoofbeats: America’s Vanishing Wild Horses is available at www.WildHoofbeats.com. The award-winning book was released winter of 2008 and is currently in its second printing. Carol’s second book, Horse Photography: The Dynamic Guide for Horse Lovers is in its second printing as well and is available at: www.HorsePhotographyWorkshops.com.

www.internationalequineartists.com

VL Nancy Christy-Moore IEA

Signature Member

Nancy Christy-Moore , an internationally recognized award-winning painter, brings the joy of color, energy and movement to her abstract mixed watermedia paintings created on both canvas and paper.

Educated at Columbia College in Columbia, Missouri, the American Academy of Art in Chicago, and Art Center College of Design in Los Angeles, she has taught and exhibited her work for the past thirty plus years. Currently Nancy teaches workshops and conducts demonstrations using her “inner painting” techniques.

Nancy Christy-Moore has held over 20 solo exhibits, with 2 in Japan. She accepts creative commissions.

Included in many private and corporate collections, her paintings have been exhibited in museums, public spaces and as limited edition prints for the Hyatt Regency Hotel chain. She was cover artist and featured artist for Horses in Art Magazine’s 2011 Summer issue, 2012 Menlo Charity Horse Show Official Artist and is a signature member of International Equine Artists.

Visit Nancy’s website: http://www.nchristy.com

www.internationalequineartists.com

www.internationalequineartists.com

VisualLanguageMagazine.com - VL Magazine | 5

VL Lorna Matsuda IEA

6 | VL Magazine - VisualLanguageMagazine.com

Signature Member

www.internationalequineartists.com

Lorna is a self-taught artist from Alberta Canada. Her subject passion for art lies in Equine, animal and western lifestyles with a strong focus on realism and detail, her objective is to show the emotion and character of the subjects. She is an established artist having received several Peoples Choice Awards, been juried into many exhibits and art sales, also receiving the Gallery Choice Award at the Calgary Stampede Western Art Showcase. She is a Signature Status International Equine Artist and also an official Trail of Painted Ponies Artist with currently 3 releases. Her artwork has be purchased by collectors nationwide and internationally.

Please feel free to visit her website at www.Giddyup-Portraits.com to enjoy more of her artworks.

www.internationalequineartists.com

VL

Andrea Michael IEA

The animal kingdom is my muse and my greatest love and this is reflected in the art that I create. From beloved pets to the wildest of beasts, all of nature’s creatures inspire me. However, of them all, the horse stands uppermost in my regard. His power and grace, his fire and beauty and his subtle ways of communication all urge me to try and capture his likeness in my art. I’m a photorealist artist who strives to breathe life into my subjects, elevating them above mere copies of the photographs I reference.

In painstaking detail I define the smallest components of what makes the animal unique, distinct from all the others like it. The smallest things play together to capture a personality - the set of a lip, the arch of a brow, a look in the eye. With these I strive to tell the story of the individual.

8 | VL Magazine - VisualLanguageMagazine.com

www.internationalequineartists.com

Born in 1980, I spent my childhood years on a farm in Queensland, Australia where animals were my constant companions. It’s not hard to develop admiration and respect for the characters you grow up with, and farmyard animals, pets and wild creatures like wallabies and wedge-tailed eagles were part of my story very early on. My intense love of horses started forming when I was about 4 or 5 and despite what practically every adult felt the need to tell me through the years, I did not grow out of it! These days I live in the gorgeous Dandenong Ranges, just outside of Melbourne. I have a wonderful supportive husband, and more pets than you can poke a stick at. I also have a small, opinionated part Arab horse called Danny who keeps me broke. http://www.andreamichaelartist.com/

www.internationalequineartists.com

http://www.internationalequineartists.com/