Visual Language Magazine Vol 4 No 5 May 2015

Art . Visual Language VL May 2015 Volume 4 No. 5

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Funding Art. Sara Genn 3 Dimensional Art . Barry Scharf Atmospheric Light . Ann Squire Equine . Carole Andreen-Harris Capturing Beauty . Marie D’Angelo Spirit Horse . Tony Stromberg Interview . Renee Fukumoto

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Visual Language Magazine has enjoyed publishing 40 issues in which we’ve shared the lives, the stories, and the art of artists around the world. The international presence of Visual Language Magazine has grown worldwide with each release and publication.

This May issue—Volume 4, No. 5—will be the last published issue of the international version of Visual Language Magazine.

Change can be a beautiful story if you allow it to happen... in life, as well as in artwork and painting.

It is time for a life change here at VLM. Appreciation and thanks to Nancy Medina for her continued guidance in producing VLM from our first issue; to Lisa Kreymborg for her work on the first few years of VLM; to both ARTSPAN and CFAI.co for sponsoring VLM; and to Sarah Genn for continuing the legacy of her father and the commitment he took to heart with Painter’s Keys. VLM is grateful to our writers, Dave Justus, Barry Scharf, and Hall Groat III, and to our proofreader, Lisa Neison-Smith.

Most of all, we thank all of you... the artists and the collectors that have been a part of this beautiful journey. Stacey and I will miss each and every one of you. Over the past three years, we have both connected to artists worldwide and have forged many life-long friendships.

“May the road rise up to meet you.

May the wind always be at your back.

May the sun shine warm upon your face, and rains fall soft upon your fields.

And until we meet again, May God hold you in the palm of His hand.”

Thank you again for this beautiful experience.

Editor in Chief Laurie Pace “Every Second Holds A Lifetime Of Inspiration.”

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Painter . Writer . Teacher Laurie Pace has painted from an early age, encouraged by her parents to pursue her love of drawing and painting. Her earliest pieces were donated to the local PBS auctions when she was in high school. Laurie’s degree from college was in Commercial Art and she served as head artist with the von Allmen Ad Agency for ten years. After her children began arriving, she went back to obtain her teaching credentials and has taught art, guitar and piano for thirty-five years.

She enjoys her music and writing right alongside her love of art. She created Visual Language Magazine in January of 2012. Working with artists internationally, she has cherished this experience in life.

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content Cover Artist Laurie Pace 3 Painter . Writer . Teacher

Painter’s Keys - Sara Genn 8 Funding Art

Barry Scharf 16 The Art and Science of 3-Dimensional Form

Ann Squire 28 Atmospheric Light

Carole Andreen-Harris 58 Equine Art

Maria D’Angelo 78

Capturing Timeless Beauty

Tony Stromberg 90 Spirit of the Horse

Renee Fukumoto 110 Capturing Timeless Beauty

36 International Artists Profiles 114 9 Represented Countries

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Painter’s Keys: Letter from Sara Genn

Funding Art

I’m laptopping you from the second row of a downtown movie theatre, where the Tribeca Film Festival is premiering one of its 100 feature selections. To my right slumps a solo, bespectacled cinephile, fine legs crossed in corduroy. To my left, a millennial can’t resist fondling her phone.

Near hysteria, and in jangly bangles and bronchitis, she beeps with her seatmate while opening and closing her purse. Afterward, the cast and crew stand under a yellow spotlight to answer questions. Even with a few heavy-hitters under his belt, the writer/director smiles with the first blush of love as he talks about how the film got made. He draws an imaginary arc on the floor with the tip of his shoe, gazing dreamily and clutching the mic. The actors eyelash in a row beside him.

Even the Oscar-winner, squinting into the audience’s iPhone flashes, has acquiesced in this moment of scrappy togetherness.

Earlier, I stood at the back of a small, black-event space in the Meatpacking district and watched the movie’s producer shake hands with the room.

He’s here to sell. Amongst the champagne cocktails and mini-beef-sliders, my producer-friend hustled between huddles of darty eyes like a bee to his blossoms. “In the beginning I was an outsider, too,” he told me. “Now I’m on the inside, and it’s just a big party. I’m working all the time. I like to make films, I like to solve problems, I’m always finding money.”

Heizer's 2011 sketch of the 340-tonne boulder and trench installation for the Los Angeles County Museum. The 150 million-year-old granite megalith took 11 nights to move it from its quarry.​

Levitated Mass by artist Michael Heizer is designed to last 3500 years and is on view on the LACMA's Resnick North Lawn.​

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We painters have it easy. Unless we’re working in diamond dust, our funding is simple. The cost of making a painting is positively monklike in comparison to making a blockbuster.

And we don’t have to sell the thing half a dozen times before it can get in front of an audience. Some might say you’ve got to gamble big to win big, but in the world of art, great oaks from little acorns still grow. Recently, art critic Jerry Saltz wrote a review of the new Whitney Museum for New York magazine. In his introduction he described the recent travesty of contemporary art museums’ quest for bigger and more costly spectacles. He used words like “fun-house” and “photo-op.” He made an example of the Los Angeles County Museum’s $10 million installation of a boulder suspended over a trench. Saltz reminisced about his childhood wanderings with his mother through an art museum’s permanent collection and the life-changing discovery of room upon room of simple storytelling on canvas in pigment and brushwork. It was love, and it was priceless.

Sincerely, Sara

Esoterica: Amongst the festival parties and next-day lunches, my producer friend gets to hang with his cast and crew, and soak up the downtown vibes. Spring teases with a balmy, Prussian sky an Heizer’s 2011 sketch of the 340-tonne boulder and trench installation for the Los Angeles County Museum. The 150 million-year-old granite megalith took 11 nights to move it from its quarry.​d apple blossoms, casting the iron façades of Tribeca with a heightened romance. Late into the night, the producer’s biggest star takes him uptown to the home of a friend -- a painter -- to be changed by the freedom of a paint-splattered floor.

You can’t put a price on it.

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Barry W. Scharf

A Monolithic Sandstone Slab The Art and Science of 3-Dimensional Form I have been a sculptor since the early 1970’s. As a painter of that period I found myself wanting to go beyond the limited illusion and or illustration of painting. I was seeking a way of bringing my visions off the flat surface of the canvas into real space. It began for me with an idea of shaping canvas over oddly shaped frames, then painting them but eventually this progressed into working directly with wood and stone.

The problems that a painter faces when they move from the science and chemistry of oil paint to the radically different structures of sculpture are complicated and activate a different section of the brain. Now not only must the artist deal with a visual concept that has meaning but further, this work is compounded by the necessity to deal with the reality of gravity, materials and their strengths and limitations, as well as the geometry that gives all angles in the round a proper movement and reason for being. It is this dance of movement and materials that is key to creating a successful sculpture. It must be graceful, meaningful and the materials must be supportive of the statement not only in content but in scale as well. The real object must obey the laws of nature even if the illusion is to deny them.

My earliest serious sculpture was a monolithic sandstone slab 2ft tall and 4in thick.

Due to the limitation of the thickness of

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the stone I carved it into a gestural torso with a 15-degree twist‌ just enough to lead the eye around the form. The surfaces of figurative expression had to be compressed and so gave way to emerging elements without being fully representational. I had managed to blend the abstract concepts often found within my 2-dimentional painting into this form because of the limitation of the materials.

This was a great lesson for me to allow the materials to dictated the direction of the form. That sculpture was sold as soon as it was finished and confirmed that I needed to be a sculptor as well as a painter.

Over the years I have gone on to explore other materials, I have built wood and paper constructions in relief and shaped canvas oil paintings as well. I have worked with fine marbles from Italy and most recently, I have used the local woods of the Pacific Northwest and all this time I have remained true to blending the abstract with the figurative within form, which was my first concept a niche that I have not seen, repeated.

Theses days the focused is on the marriage of wood and stone and the blending of the two elements to work together as one or at least as an accent to each other. I have also found a way that allows for me to paint color which helps express the content of the work not found in the natural materials.

Early Stages

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A Monolithic Sandstone Slab

The Shaman

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Barry W. Scharf

A Monolithic Sandstone Slab

The Fisherman

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Barry W. Scharf

There are no rules in the creative process there is only trial and error that guides the hand of the artist. True expressive success is found in the perseverance and dedication of each artist to the perfection of design, content, movement, scale, balance and all other elemental factors that allow a sculpture to exist and persist without falling apart. I believe the sculptor is an architect of nonresidential objects of things that can be walked around and appreciated for what they offer the soul of the viewer from the very small and intimate to a monolithic mega scale that dwarfs the viewer.

Spiritual Fire with Closeup of the flames

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Vertical Damn

Sculpture Studio

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Linda McCoy

Downy Woodpecker 12 x 12

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Intercept 14 x 6

Sunlight fuels my passion to create art. I am fascinated by the way it passes through a transparent flower petal, how it dances through glass, warms the top of an apple and appoints sentiment to ordinary objects. Capturing that transformation when an object is illuminated into something previously unseen is what truly inspires me. This light is what drives me to share my perception with others; and is a reminder to cherish the nuances of life.

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Pink Peach Roses and Green Spots Daffadils and Mandarins

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Jonelle T McCoy

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Immerse yourself in the majesty and mystery of the symbol dressed stallion using texture to emphasize depth and detail of the horse and his costume.

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Ann Squire

Atmospheric Light With previous generations of her family steeped in the farming life, it is perhaps not surprising that Ann Squire grew up surrounded by a motley collection of animals. Drawings of a beloved pit rescue pony and a variety of other animals perpetuated a desire to pursue art as a career. With few opportunities available at that time, Ann turned to nursing, enjoying almost 30 years in that field, before fate decreed a new pathway!

Suffering depression after surgery in 1996. Ann turned again to Art, discovering its therapeutic qualities not only lifted the debilitating effects of the illness, but ignited the long- felt desire to draw and paint ... and a new career!

Ann’s favourite subjects are wildlife and horses, with forays into coastal scenes prompted by the beautiful south coast close to home. “Painting wildlife is always a challenge... They don’t stand still” she says. And Capturing the soul and mood of each animal too, is tricky, but helps achieve the desired realism. Spurred on by the masterful works of Turner, Monet, and Degas... all artists admired by Ann for their paintings depicting atmospheric light, luminosity, and translucent light effects. Ann is also inspired by the effects of light, It might simply be the shine on the coat of a black cat, the pink flesh inside an animal’s ear or the reflected light on a white horse. http://www.annsquire.net/

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Although her preferred mediums are oil and pastel, Ann has been challenging herself with the medium acrylic and has been commissioned to paint murals combining animals alive today with their fossilized ancestors . The murals are displayed at the creation research centre Queensland Australia.

Going from strength to strength she has gained numerous accolades for her work. listed are just a few. 2013 her painting of a Lizard was awarded best Acrylic painting in the National Exhibition of Wildlife Art (N.E.W.A) Liverpool. 2014 she had painting shortlisted in David Shepherd Wildlife Artist of the Year which was subsequently awarded highly commended. Also 2014 had a painting shortlisted in the British Wildlife in Art competition held in conjunction with National Exhibition N.E.W.A. Also a painting of a donkey and foal selected for the New Forest open exhibition Lyndhurst was awarded best in show by public vote.

Ann Exhibits with the Society of Equestrian Art, 4 Seasons Artists, Exbury Gardens, The National Exhibition of Wildlife Art, Liverpool, St Barbe Museum, Limington. The New forest Open Exhibition, Lyndurst. The Pastel Society, The Society Women Artists and The David Shephard, Wildlife Exhibition, in the Mall Galleries London.

Mountain Majesty

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Wildlife and Equestrian Art

Ann Squire

Poetry in Motion

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Dawning

Tiger Crossing

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Wildlife and Equestrian Art

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Inquisitive

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Show Stopper

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Wildlife and Equestrian Art

Ann Squire

Untamed

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Golden Dawn

My Pool I Think

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Wildlife and Equestrian Art

Ann Squire

Nurture

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Are We Nearly There?

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Carole Andreen-Harris

A Craving Carole Andreen-Harris was driven initially to put pencil to paper by a love of horses and animals, with a deeply ingrained appreciation of the horse in all its breeds and disciplines. Raised in Minnesota and later Arizona, she spent much of her childhood traveling all across the USA, soaking in the dramatic and varied scenery, including many summers spent in western states like Wyoming and Montana. Hours spent sketching and painting in these years would help prepare for her future as a professional artist.

A craving for everything horse while remaining horseless drove her need to take pencil to paper, a means of compensating for what she longed for. After moving to Arizona at the age of 16, her dream of owning horses finally came true, and she lived and breathed her horses every moment of daylight she could, but when the sun went

down it was back to the drawing board… the art of horses had created it’s own drive. After selling her horses to go to art school, where she met her husband, she continued to pursue a career as a professional artist, something she takes pride in cultivating a home centered around her family of professional artists.

Carole’s paintings have strong visual appeal – both up close and from afar. She has a deep understanding and appreciation for her subjects that she exhibits through paint. Finding a common ground between accuracy and artistic integrity in her work is her hallmark. The equine subject in particular is one of lifelong fascination, and is tackled with the eye of a horse person, which is why her horse paintings are so well received among those who live and work with horses.

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Equine

Carole Andreen-Harris

Gray 16 x 20 Oil

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“A craving for everything horse while remaining horseless drove her need to take pencil to paper, a means of compensating for what she longed for.�

Hug 16 x 20 Oil

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Carole Andreen-Harris

Latroienne 20 x 24 Oil

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Spanish Silver 18 X 24 Oil

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Carole Andreen-Harris

An Associate Member of the American Academy of Equine Art, Carole is also a Master Signature member of the Institute of Equine Artists and a member of Women Artists of the West (WAOW). Del Mar Racetrack commissioned her to paint the winner of the prestigious 2012 $1 Million Pacific Classic, the signature race run during the summer meet at beautiful beachside track in San Diego, California, and Woodford Reserve Bourbon, the official bourbon of the Kentucky Derby, commissioned a painting from for the label of their 2015 Commemorative Derby bottle.

Morgan Mystique 12 x 24 Oil

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Carole currently lives and paints in Tucson, Arizona with her automotive artist husband and two children. Carole has had solo shows in Tucson and Nashville, and her work has been accepted into prestigious art shows and institutions such as the Cattleman’s Western Art Show, The Phippen Western Art Show & Sale, Mountain Oyster Club Western Art Show & Sale, Empire 100 Western Art Show & Sale, and the American Academy of Equine Art Open and Invitational shows.

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Equine

Carole Andreen-Harris

Posse Pony 16 x 20 Oil

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Scraping the Paint 15 x 30 Oil

Natural Beauty 18 x 24 Oil

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“Havana Dreams on Decatur, New Orleans” 24” x 30”

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Janet Broussard A Texas artist with ties to New Orleans, Janet Broussard has captured the essence of this old world iconic city.

“I really worked to capture the patina of the two hundred year old city with its European charm and history.”

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“Court of Two Sisters, New Orleans” 24” x 30” Oil

janetbroussard.com Janet’s work is diverse, ranging from landscape to still life, figures and animals.

Always emotionally inspired by nature, Janet admired the beautiful light captured by the California Impressionists, especially Edgar Payne and George Wendt; she also admired the fluid strokes and spontaneity of the painter Joaquin Sorolla. Maynard Dixon’s southwestern landscapes appealed to her graphic sense with saturated colors and simple shapes that conveyed vast skies and distant buttes. The paintings by these masters moved Janet to change mediums and genres. Leaving behind handmade paper and contemporary abstract ideas, she embraced representational concepts and began painting with oils.

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20” x 16” Oil

“Brilliant Dawn”

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Tracy Miller

“Tres Bellezas” 36’’x48’’ Acrylic on Canvas

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Lunell Gilley

As with any Painter my work reflects my moods through drama, color and composition on todays canvases. Timeless events captured from my broad collection of well traveled memories.

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Gregory Simmons Contemporary Realist

Water Hazard 8 Acrylic 30 x 36

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Marti Leroux

The Secret Garden 30”x24” Oil on canvas

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Spring Glow

Judy Wilder Dalton Contemporary Fine Artist “Finding Life in Art and Art in Life�

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lillian neal

contemporary worship artist

Birthing Place

Free to Be Me

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Deliverance Warrior

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Cloud by Day

Equine

Maria D’Angelo

Capturing Timeless Beauty Maria D’Angelo has been drawing since she was a child in Staten Island, NY. She often says she feels as though she was born with a pencil in her hand and everyone that has known her since that young age agrees. Although she is from the east, it is the American west, particularly the horses and Native American people, which she chooses to capture on paper.

Maria studied fine art in college but feels her talent is natural and has blossomed through the mentorship she receives from acclaimed artist Krystii Melaine. She has spent much time traveling in the western US visiting countless museums, galleries, historic sites attending cultural events and equine competitions and shows where she gets her inspiration. Her works usually start with an outline drawing, then evolve into compositions in which light against dark and fine details are the primary focus. Maria says that it is the fine details that her

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clients most often remark about when they see her drawings. “The detail in my work is usually the first thing that draws a person to it. They are always amazed by it.”

While she has worked in different media in the past, it is the pencil she always comes back to. It’s her tool of choice, she says, because it gives her great control and versatility. “I especially love Nero pencils. They are different than a regular graphite pencil as they contain a small bit of oil in them making the blending very different. Strathmore 500 Series Bristol is my favorite paper to work on.

I love the smoothness of this paper and it enables me to capture the tiny details in each piece.”

Maria is a member of the American Women Artists, the Western Associates, the NJ Equine Artists’ Association, the Institute Of Equine Artists and the Pencil Artist Society.

Right Page: Gentle Gaze

Three Little Birds

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Equine

Maria D’Angelo

Big Daddy http://www.mariadangelo.com//

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Early Stage

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Equine

Maria D’Angelo

Jato

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Honey

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Equine

Maria D’Angelo

Traveling the Cowboy Way

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Pedro

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Roseanne Snyder Texas Landscape Artist

Early Spring 16 x 18

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Suzy Pal Powell suzypal.blogspot.com Bluecanvas.com/suzypal

“Just Horse’n Around”

jana kappeler Contemporary Abstract Art in Acrylic and Mixed Media

Meditation Meadow Acrylic on Canvas 30�h x 48�w

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Helen Bailey

AAEA, IEA, CPSA, AWA - Associate Member, WAOW - Associate Member

Starlight Express

“I draw what I love...and I hope other people see what they love in my drawings.”

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Equine

Tony Stromberg

Tony Stromberg

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Equine

Tony Stromberg

Where the Magic Happens I did not grow up around horses. They came at a much needed time in my life when things were falling apart, and they helped me grow and evolve because they “saw” who I really was, and helped me to see myself beyond the personality that I had built up. My work with horses has since become a tribute to them, and an offering of what they have brought to me, because as I learned to reveal myself, they have also let me “see” them. Most horse people will understand what I mean by this.

Many people have told me that I have the ability to bring out the true essence of the horse, his authentic spirit, his strength, his archetypal nature. At least that is my goal and my intention. The horses

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speak through me, and I feel that my work is a bridge between the spirit of the horse and the soul of the human.

So what makes my work any different from the myriad of other equine photographers out there?

First of all, my images of horses never show tack or saddles of any kind. No riding, no photos of horses in competition, and no images of horses in a stall or paddock, or any enclosure of any kind.

My work reflects the horse in his true essence… just pure horse. No restrictions, no containment, no discipline... just the horse in its most essential form, at the deepest level of his being.

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Tony Stromberg

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Three Brothers

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Tony Stromberg

Equine

After being a photographer for more than 30 years, and becoming disenchanted, I found that the key to satisfaction with my craft was that it was not the medium that mattered that much, but that I needed to have a deep love and respect for the subject I was shooting. When I started photographing horses, my world changed dramatically. I found something I was passionate about, something that I felt compelled to share with the world, and something that was beyond myself.

And I could apply all the years of experience I had accumulated, and use the tools and techniques that I have learned to create imagery that literally “speaks” to people, that really brings the essence of the horse into people’s lives.

When I teach equine photography workshops, I do not spend too much time focusing on technique or formulas. Rather, I encourage people to get out of the “box”, to put away the manuals and textbooks, and to experiment, to become playful again…. because that takes them closer to their authentic selves. And the closer we are to our authentic selves, the closer we can come to the horse. It reminds me of a quite from a trainer I know… “if you want to connect with the horse, first you have to connect with yourself, then the horse can come to you.” I think that is the essence of equine photography, or any photography for than matter.

Sure, I also teach technique and a lot of physical elements that go into creating a great photo, and I do that in workshops, but if you’ve got the relationship established… if you can be your playful and authentic self, and reveal that to the horses, they will do the same for you. And that is where the magic happens…

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Elegance

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Elizabeth Chapman

Pink Orchid

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Red Wolf

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Across the Valley

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Had I Known

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Equine

Renee Fukumoto

About You and Your Art….

When did you realize you loved art and wanted to be an artist? ~ when I was a small child I knew I was an artist. I was always drawing animals, asking my Mom if it looked like (what it was attempting to draw) and then ripping it up and starting over because I didn’t think it was good enough.

Where did you study art? ~ After high school, where I loved the art classes, I took one studio art class at University (where I majored in English literature) and found it lacking. I stopped painting or drawing for several years, then picked it up again, when I realized my day job was doing nothing to feed my spirit. From that point on, I studied other artist’s works via art magazines and just played with the media to see what it could do and what I liked.

Who has been your mentor, or greatest influence to date? Who is another living artist you admire and why? ~ There are several that I admire. One of my favourites is Michele Van Maurik who paints the most fantastic florals. They nearly breathe and you feel you’ve entered a magical space when you view them. Breathtaking!

What is your favorite surface to paint on? ~ I recently started painting on gessoed panels as well as Ampersand Claybord and Aquabord. I’ve found I love the fine, smooth surface.

But I like to change things up often; sometimes I seek out a rougher surface or a smoother surface. It depends on the final effect I want the piece to have.

What are your favorite paints to use? ~ My current favourite paints are watercolours (I’ve bought myself a juicey bunch of watercolour tubes by M. Graham & Co.). I also love working with ink washes and use Winsor & Newton Indian Ink as well as Daler Rowney FW Acrylic Artists Inks.

I’ve begun exploring oil paints and I’m looking forward to developing further with this media.

Do you have a favorite color palette? ~ I tend toward black and white or monochrome, as well as natural colours, depending on the subject. ~ I am expanding my choices as I explore the use of colour in my work.

How often do you paint? ~ I’ve been pushing toward a daily studio practice, though life often intrudes with other priorities.

There are many culprits that can crush creativity, such as distractions, self-doubt and fear of failure. What tends to stand in the way of your creativity? ~ Self doubt and perfectionism have been major obstacles to my creativity. They are often at the root of allowing distractions to keep me from working in the studio.

How do you overcome these obstacles?~ I’ve found lately that inviting myself to play on the canvas or paper has been helpful in distracting the inner gremlins that otherwise try to keep me from creating. To play or experiment, or “make marks”, in the process of painting or drawing, takes the pressure to be perfect away.

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What is your favorite way to get creative juices flowing?~ In the studio, having a time to doodle and experiment allows some of the energy of creativity to start flowing while at the same time building confidence and skills that can be used in creating final works. Outside the studio, I find that spending time with my horse and experiencing the natural world, are essential to getting my creative juices flowing. Experiencing the work of other artists, especially those whose work uses techniques and colours that are different from what I usually use, is also very inspiring. It opens the eyes and the imagination to potential and possibilitie.

Do you have a favorite painting to share with us and tell us why? ~ It’s hard to choose a favourite; some pieces I like because they “worked well”, others because I found the process itself was so enjoyable and satisfying or fun that, whether they appeal to anyone else or not, I enjoy looking at them and reliving the experience of making them. ~ Currently I think one of my favourites is “Mysterious”, an ink wash piece on Ampersand Claybord. I like the way the shape of the horse emerges from and is still part of the movement of ink on the surface.

Up Close and Personal What book are you reading this week? ~ The Lord of the Rings – again! As well as “All In” by Arlene Dickinson Do you have a favorite television show? ~ Currently, “Grimm”. Imagination running a little wild on the “what if” fantasy genre tangent What is your favorite food? ~ Chocolate. Fudge (made by my daughter!), and chocolate caramel anything.

What color sheets are on your bed right now? ~ Chocolate brown!

What is your favorite color in your closet? ~ Turquoise What are you most proud of in your life?~ My four children and my husband.

Do you have a passion besides painting? ~ Riding my horse If you could live anywhere in the world, where would you live? ~ I think I would like to move around a bit to experience different parts of the world before deciding. I’d love to experience Arizona (the colours! The climate! The wildlife!) and I’d love to experience New Zealand and Australia. Then again, the South of France or Tuscany are very appealing…

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Carmel Jenkins

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Australia 02

Gabriel Panev

Hristo Panev

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Ivanichka Panev

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Drew Keilback

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Michelle Hogan

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Michael Holtz

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Nick Gonzalez Germany

Roger Akesson

Alan M Hunt

Andrea Abraham

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Judi Kent Pyrah

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Ruth Buchanan United Kingdom

Lunell Gilley Unisted States of America

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Theresa Paden United States of America

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Thomas Allen Pauley United States of America

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Lunell Gilley United States of America

United Kingdom 16

Judy Mackey United States of America

United Kingdom

Germany 08

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United Kingdom

Canada 07

Juan Jose Espinoza Soto

Elizabeth Chapman United States of America

Sweden

Canada 06

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Mexico

Bulgaria 05

Sara Hodson-Daly

Silvana Gabudean United Kingdom

Ireland

Bulgaria 04

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Leidija Ivanek-SiLa

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Australia

Carmel Jenkins

Two Nudes

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I am an artist living in Melbourne, Australia. My works are principally a series of female nudes. The media I use for drawing are charcoal and ink. For paintings I use acrylic, oil, and occasionally oil stick. Growing up I was exposed to repeated bouts of illness from my mother who suffered from breast cancer over an eight-year period. When I was 15 my mother died. Art had been the only subject at school I seemed to excel in after my mother’s death. I started at age 15 exploring the female form in my work, in particular the nude. I would paint the struggles and pain and vulnerability of the body. It became in many ways my escape, my mourning and my healing. After completion of a Bachelor of Visual Arts at the Queensland University of Technology I have since had six solo shows and contributed to numerous group exhibitions. With each show I venture into slightly new territory, while remaining loyal to the female form. Commencing with photo-realistic works, moving to gentle, linear works with just the suggestion of female proportion through the line, and then evolving into stronger, more defiantly curvaceous bodies, stripped of facial expression to emphasise how the body itself emotes. I explore different narrative, compositional elements and media, such as ink paintings applied to canvas like drawings. My pieces have always been inherently private and personal for me. I hope you enjoy them.

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Gabriel Panev

Orenda Gabriel Panev is a representative of the contemporary modern generation Bulgarian artists. He is graduated in the subject of painting at the Sts Cyril and Methodius University of Veliko Turnovo. Still student he seeks his way of creative growth. Passing through the influence of surrealistic tendencies of western European art and reaching to the esthetics of the abstraction. He grow in the family of artists and is not get into their creative influence, as he search and found his own style subordinate to his own creative point of view, as well as of the newest tendencies of the modern European art. If we try to characterize the peculiarity of his art, we should mention, that it is rich of color gamma wearing the sign of the modern abstract painting. Something else, he uses symbols and signs of Christian culture with which meat deeper suggestions and messages to the spectator. If we should generalize the written up to here, we can say, that Gabriel Panev is talented, modern, thinking modern artist, which creative achievements are guarantee for rising way of development in the sphere of the contemporary modern painting.

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Hristo Panev

Nike The sense of live is in elaboration of human spirit, and the highest manifestation of the spirit is art, through it the artist in a moment of inspirations is touching to God� - Hristo Panev

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Hristo Panev is a recognized author in the contemporary Bulgarian art. He works in the sphere of paintings, graphics, illustration, book design and monumental art.His paintings are characterized with expressionism, rich colorful gamma, genre and theatrical variety. It is influenced from the Bulgarian icon and mainly from the Bulgarian fresco. Typical for his cycles: Frescos, Mythological scene, Bible subjects, Life subjects: Love, motherhood, music.

His graphic drawings are with clear line and closer to the poetry. His monumental art are in technics - graffito and dry fresco. Hristo Panev is eternally seeking, a restless spirit in the contemporary Bulgaria art.

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Ivanichka Paneva

Bulgarian Woman Ivanichka Paneva is one of those artists fall in love in the romantic corners of Bulgarian landscape and architecture of the ancient capital Veliko Turnovo. The landscapes from her born city wears unique atmosphere and color of artist deeply connected with this city, which rich historical fortune haunt in the air, which just a few Bulgarian artists touch, studded with the God spark and inspiration. The paintings of Ivanichka Paneva act like that we forgot the known and she shows it, as if the same but different, transformed from her brush-that Turnovo, similar to amphitheatric dÊcor of the visible, behind which there is some secret known just by her. As if she gave us her eyes to see the known in a new way. It is a surprise how in the landscape, interiors, flowers, still life - all time genres which repeat the reality, she overcomes this reality, destroy it, to rebuild it in a new author’s way, for the colors, tones, semitones, nuances in this painting can be talk for: sometimes fairy colors- none expected. Color is transformed in a symphony of hues.

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Canada

Drew Keilback

Sparrow

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Drew is a realist oil painter born and raised on the Canadian prairies. Drawing and sketching from an early age, he received his Fine Art training in Phoenix, Arizona. While there, he was deeply influenced by the contemporary Western painting style of the Southwest and to this day is an admirer of the works of Howard Terpening, Matt Smith and Mian Situ.

Moving back to Canada, Drew enrolled in a Commercial Art course and upon graduating he became employed at CBC Vancouver as a television broadcast designer. He enjoyed a successful career there and retired after 28 years to devote his energy entirely towards his painting endeavours. Living on the West Coast, he has been easily captivated by the vast and rugged beauty of the area and has traveled and hiked it extensively. His paintings are simply an attempt to portray the life and land that surround him ‌ to convey an interpretation of a situation that is unique to the viewer. Drew is currently represented by Harrison Galleries in Vancouver and Davis & Co. Fine Art Gallery in Spring, Texas

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Michelle Hogan

Catnap Some choose to express themselves through color. Michelle, however, prefers the stark contrasts that can be created using only black ink and white paper. She loves to create the illusion of depth using only the smallest of pens available. Through stipple and line, she strives to produce drawings that, when viewed as a whole, are highly realistic. Although most of her work is black & white, some splashes of color can be seen over the ink foundation from time to time.

Michelle’s work is a reflection of herself and her passion. Growing up in rural Ontario, horses have always been a part of her life; first as a dream and later as reality. From an early age, harness racing worked its way under her skin. It quickly became a part of her and who she is. Much of her work now features the game she lives, breaths and loves so much. michellehogan.ca VisualLanguageMagazine.com - VL Magazine | 121

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Germany

Michael Hotz

Sunday Silence Strength and dynamism of expression along with great attention to detail – these qualities are characteristic of the artistic style of Michael Hotz. His passion for art was evident early on. Hotz attended a school of arts for young adults in Germany and later studied at a vocational school for design. His experience as a rider has sparked his enthusiasm for horses, which he has been channelling with great devotion and intuition into his sophisticated equine art for many years now.

Whatever the medium is – oil on canvas, watercolour, pencil or pastels – not only because of the use of only the best materials available, but also because of the time Michael Hotz invests into his art, the result is equine art of the highest quality – loved by people around the world. hotz-gallery.com

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Nick Gonzalez

Meeting

I am inspired by the infinite visual resource offered by landscape, skies & seascapes. In these themes I find a rich and complex source of creative potential.

For me, the forms that land/seascapes can take vary from high-realism to minimal abstraction, from poetic mood to formal construction, from high drama to fleeting moments of play. Each painting has it’s own developmental journey – the act of painting is a passionate process of making permanent those initial impressions and visions. The painting is not so much about a particular subject as it is about how that subject illuminates itself. Therefore, in terms of my technique, I sometimes paint very rapidly and at other times there is a slow process of excavation. In any case, I am sustained by a sense of curiosity and wonder at the outcome, endeavoring to discover the magical potential within each new canvas. nickgonzalez-art.com VisualLanguageMagazine.com - VL Magazine | 123

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Ireland

Leidija Ivanek-SiLa

Watercolor I am a self taught painter and alternative photographer. Currently I am developing photographs using gum bichromate and pigments. I’m interested in space, bounded and unbounded, used or derelict, empty or cluttered, noisy or quiet, … In this space there are buildings and people, animals and nature. Light has a special meaning for me. I paint using watercolours, oil, acrylic, ink paints and I draw with charcoals. Since 2008. I exhibit my works at solo and/or group exhibitions in Croatia and abroad, I participate at art colonies, contests, etc. Exhibition of Alternative photography, Mar 30, 2014, Zabok, Croatia. Scheduled exhibition in Zagreb, Croatia, Gallery Permanenta in October, 2015. Although, I am Croatian, since 2015 I live and work in Ireland, Kinsale. I am a member of the Croatian association of photographers “KADAR 36”. silaart.com

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Sara Hodson

Steadfast 30” x 48” x 1.5” Canvas

Numbers Series No. 34 The summers I spent in Ireland as a child gave me a love of country life and horses. My early experiences of horse fairs and horse racing left a deep impression and sketch books full of drawings. Over the years this has distilled into an interest and love of the Irish Horse, from coloured cobs on a fair day to the magnificent Irish Draught Stallions at the Dublin Horse Show. My other great passion is horse racing; the spirit and courage of the thoroughbred and the skill and bravery of the jockey.

I am an Associate member of the Society of Equestrian artists in the UK and I exhibit in London and at home in Ireland regularly. Working from my own sketches, drawings and photographs I often return to the same scenes to gain a deeper appreciation and understanding of my subjects. It is a lifetime passion and a joy. sarahodson.com VisualLanguageMagazine.com - VL Magazine | 125

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Mexico

Juan Jose Espinoza Soto

Horse Self-taught painter and architect, member of the Mexican Society of Watercolor Painters, my work has involved individual and group exhibitions in Mexico and abroad, where start a join Private Collections and Art Galleries, US, France, and Australia mainly. My painting is figurative, realist, a recurring theme since childhood (where already showed outstanding qualities for drawing) are the horses that reached more than play a give soul and personality, watercolor fascinated me for being a medium own life that surprises you if you let it, with his whims, and the oil for his forcefulness, I think it is not only the hand and technical but the eye to see the world, which manages to give life and reflect your painting. Always establish a dialogue with each work, never as it will end, and that’s the beauty, that surprises you and you like the end result, I have yet to explore many themes and narratives, and I think the paint should be honest from a concept, risking always beyond my comfort zone. juan-jose-espinoza.artistwebsites.com

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Trine Meyer Vogsland

Steadfast 30” x 48” x 1.5” Canvas

Playing in the Seaweed Red Trine Meyer Vogsland is a Norwegian artist. She is a mum and a teacher who discovered after age forty that she was able to paint, and that her pieces were aesthetically pleasing to the eye. She has been on an accelerated journey into her creativity and her art. Exploring different media, such as oils, acrylics, watercolour, ink, glass and mosaics and applying various techniques, she dreams of exploring UV Paint and airbrushing with her son.

Trine’s work is in private collections from Australia, to the USA, to India, Greece, Sweden, Asia and Norway. She continues to attend classes and workshop in Norway and the United Kingdom to deepen her journey into expression in her art. She enjoys the challenge and prestigious membership of DailyPainters.com dailypainters.com/artists/artist_gallery/820/Trine-Meyer-Vogsland/ VisualLanguageMagazine.com - VL Magazine | 127

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Sweden

Roger Akesson

Birds Nest Abstraction 40 Colors and emotion run high in the signature work of Swedish painter Roger Akesson. With energy filled brush strokes, the surface of his work pulls you into his world of painting.

Inspired by Van Gogh, Andy Warhol, Cornelius McCarthy, and Wayne Thiebaud, Akesson paints full emotion and power into each painting with simplicity and ease using shapes, space and composition.

Says Akesson, “I like to interpret things and put my spin on subjects like landscapes, flowers, and bird nests. To explore through color and shapes, creating something that engage the viewer. I have developed my style over the years trying to find the right balance between bold colorful brush strokes and a strong sense of design. I want my art to exude energy and have an impact on the viewer, using distinct black, yellow and white lines to achieve my goal. My intention is that the viewer’s experience will be very different when viewed up close compared to from across a room.” rogerakesson.blogspot.com/

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Alan M Hunt

Zebra Crossing My love of wildlife and Wildlife Art started as a young child and almost 60 years later the passion is still there.

I really enjoy being out in the field studying the subjects I paint. I hope this shows in the finished work as I feel it is so important to really look at all the elements that I put into my paintings, be it grass, rocks, sky, branches or the landscape. Those things will tell the story of each subject. My favorite subjects are paintings of any of the big cats and birds of prey. More than anything I enjoy the challenge of creating accurately realistic, interesting and believable paintings.

Over the years I have been fortunate enough to see incredible wildlife around the world and sad to say much of which is rare or endangered. I can only hope that through my art I can encourage others to see the beauty I see and protect it. judikentpyrahequestrianartist.co.uk/alan-hunt.html VisualLanguageMagazine.com - VL Magazine | 129

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United Kingdom

Andrea Abraham

Warrem Andrea Abraham is an English artist, based in the beautiful Hampshire countryside, who is passionate about painting portraits that capture the unique character and expressions of animals. Although part-time and only painting professionally since 2011, her talent is being increasingly recognized and most recently she was finalist for a prestigious Wildlife Artist of the Year competition (Selected not Hung in David Shepherd Wildlife Artist of the Year 2015) and the front cover artist for Society for All Artists magazine ‘Paint’ in December 2014.

Since 2011, she has also won local art exhibitions, sells paintings regularly from The Frame gallery and Golden Pot pub near Odiham, been selected to exhibit at Farnham Art Society and MIWAS Wildlife Exhibitions, chosen as Editor’s Choice for Painters Online in The Artist magazine and in the Members Gallery for Paint magazine, and invited to write an article on technique for the Painters Online newsletter. hampshireportraitstudio.co.uk

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Judi Kent Pyrah

Red Bear Inn I love drawing from life, so sketches turn into paintings -firstly gouache, then oils for larger pieces. When I discovered acrylics, my painting ability speeded up allowing me more freedom for fine detail. Years later when Alan and I got together, life became exciting. We traveled to Africa, the Middle East, the States and Canada. Traveling broadens the horizons but horses stay as my main love. Studying and learning about the different breeds, their training, tack and talents secured my work for publishers in Canada, the USA and the UK. My thoroughbreds compete at home and am a BHSAI, but after our third child at age forty, I decided the thrills and spills of event endurance with my first Arab might be safer, and began my enduring passion for the Arabian breed.

With all the horse shows and the breeding, I have now settled back to a more sedate painting life, slowly weaning my self out of my horses. I have over 50 Ltd Editions out there, and I love doing commission pieces.

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United Kingdom

Ruth Buchanan

Oil on Watercolour Paper “For me, the play of light can transform the ordinary and common place into the extra-ordinary. Alongside form, anatomy, movement and the interplay between horse and human, I have spent a lifetime learning to look. The greatest compliment is my viewer hearing the creak of leather, the thud of hooves, or smelling the bruised grass.” Following a career in Graphic Design and Illustration, Ruth Buchanan is now known for her equestrian paintings of atmosphere, character and movement. Her work features in the private collections of notable names in the arts and equestrian spheres worldwide. While expressive in nature, Ruth’s paintings are in the tradition of realism with landscape or architectural backgrounds, or exploring the juxtaposition of subject with abstract colour background to contribute to, or create tension within, the narrative. Underpinned by skilled draughtsmanship and thorough knowledge of anatomy and biomechanics, the result is contemporary take on the tradition of sporting art. ruthbuchanan.co.uk

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Silvana Gabudean

Memories of a Grass Leaf “I am a professional artist with a degree in Graphic Arts at the Fine Arts and Design University in Romania. As a member of the Society of Equestrian Artists in the United Kingdom I have had some notable exhibitions in London at the Menier Galleries and the Mall Galleries. I took part at the ‘Golden Horses’ exhibition at the National Horse Racing Museum in Newmarket, England.

My approach to horses is less depicting the photos, I try to express my own states of mind and feelings. I see the paintings surface as a whole that participates in creating the message and emotion. ‘Memories of a Grass Leaf’, a 20”x16” acrylic on canvas has been a part of the 2014 London exhibition ‘The Horse in Art’ of the SEA.”

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United States of America

Judy Mackey

Unconditional Love Judy Mackey paints primarily with Oil and the palette knife. The palette knife allows for quick strokes, thick textures and interesting mixes of color. She uses a limited palette - the basic blue, red, yellow, white - to mix the multitudes of colors, fascinated by the newness of the outcome. She also likes to use the palette knife because it allows her to apply pure color which depicts such energy.

Judy had always been interested in art from the moment she could hold a pencil in her hand and took painting lessons as a child growing up in Japan but didn’t enter the world of Fine Art as a professional artist until 2005.

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Elizabeth Chapman

Orange Cannas Elizabeth Chapman is a modern expressionistic abstract artist. Her birthplace, Caracas Venezuela, naturally gives her work an element of intensity. She has lived the majority of her life in the beautiful Ozarks of Missouri with her loving husband and family. Elizabeth graduated from Missouri State University with a B.S. in Art Education which she has used as an art educator for almost two decades, but her focus for the last few years is artwork creation. She is a versatile artist in having started with realistic floral watercolors, but has found her forte in the acrylic abstract expressionism realm. You will find a very strong sense of design and composition, important elements in working abstractly. Her modern abstract paintings have been described as vivid, lively and bold with a complexity of layers. These paintings are revelations of her innermost thoughts and feelings. Elizabeth works intuitively and is deeply inspired by music. Her amazing expressionistic modern abstracts have been sold locally, nationwide and internationally. melizabethchapman.artspan.com VisualLanguageMagazine.com - VL Magazine | 135

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United States of America

Theresa Paden

Ruffled Crow Theresa Paden creates paintings that feature vivid colors and expressive brush work. She is an animal lover and avid horse woman who has a passion for painting horses, longhorns, wildlife, and people of the West. She is dedicated to helping animals and donates a portion of all of her sales to horse rescues and other animal rescue organizations. Inspired by the Fauves, she mixes bright colors and intense light with her expressive style to capture the heart and soul of her subjects. Mixed into the bright, bold pigments is a feeling of being in the physical and spiritual presence of her subjects. Theresa says, “I approach each canvas with a feeling of adventure and excitement. My hope is that people will be energized by the colors and textures in my work and feel an emotional connection to the animals and people I portray.�

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Thomas Allen Pauly

Tight Quarters Since 1978, award-winning equine artist Thomas Allen Pauly has portrayed some of the finest horses and jockeys in the country. Born and raised in Chicago, his love of the sport emerged in the Sportsman’s Park’s winner circle when his friend’s horse named Rusty Win captured the feature race by five lengths. He was hooked. Pauly now travels extensively throughout the world to photograph his subjects in their natural settings. It has rewarded him with priceless reference material to produce paintings from the Royal Ascot, the Hong Kong Cup, the Arc de Triomphe, the Dubai World Cup, the Velka Pardubicka Ceske Pojistovny Steeplechase in Prague and numerous Breeders’ Cups, Preaknesses, Belmonts and Kentucky Derbies. Pauly depicted the who’s who in Thoroughbred racing in a portrait series commissioned by Arlington International Racecourse. In 2006, Churchill Downs selected Pauly as the Official Artist of the 2006 Kentucky Derby Commemorative Print. His painting of Barbaro was published as their Official Fan Appreciation Commemorative Art Print.

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Lunell Gilley

Longhorn and Bluebonnets

Color is where it happens in the eyes of most and then we look for composition, value and scale,etc. As with any painter my work reflects my moods through drama, color and composition on today’s canvases. Timeless events and places captured from my broad collection of traveled memories. From an early age I knew art would play a special part in my life because in my family, I was surrounded by artists of every kind. All of them musicians at the least , and my grandfather was a blacksmith that designed ornamental iron.

Some of his work can be seen at the museum in Oklahoma City that he had designed for Bob Crosby and Robert H Goddard. I was a native of New Mexico with a very simple life, and since I was a very small girl, I would draw every chance got. When we would go to pick fruit in the Hondo Valley, and got the opportunity, I watched Peter Hurd painting from a distance which drove me further towards my destiny of art. lunellgilley.com

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Maria D’Angelo

Painted Red Wren

I have been drawing since I was a child in Staten Island, NY and I often say that I feel as if I was born with a pencil in my hand. Pretty much everyone that has known me since that young age agrees. Although I was born and raised in the east, it is the American west, particularly the horses of the California vaquero tradition and Native American people, that I choose to capture on paper. These subjects have always been of great interest to me. I feel that the vaquero gear and Plains Indian regalia are works of art in their own right and add great interest and texture to a drawing. I studied fine art in college, but feel that my talent is natural and has blossomed under the mentorship of acclaimed western artist, Krystii Melaine. I’ve spent many years traveling in the western US visiting museums, galleries, historic sites and attending cultural events such as powwows, equine competitions and shows where I get a lot of my inspiration. mariadangelo.com VisualLanguageMagazine.com - VL Magazine | 139

Judy Mackey

His Shirt - Oil on Board - 6 x 6 inches

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His Shirt 5- Oil on Board - 6 x 6 inches

Judy Mackey

His Shirt 4 - Oil on Board - 6 x 6 inches

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LADY L

Colors Make Me Happy

Small Blessings 24 x 30 inches Acrylic on Canvas

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She began painting at age 2 on small pieces and by age 3 moved up to full size canvas. Lady L is the granddaughter of Texas Artist Laurie Pace.

Palette Knife Painters

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KRISTINE KAINER

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Texas Art

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Kimberly Conrad “Pouring Color Into Your Life”

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Moving Color

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Carol A. McIntyre “Floating Winds, “ 28x21, Oil on Canvas

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Alejandro Castanon

www.vinodipinte.com Vino Dipinte Art Gallery 602 Orient St

San Angelo, TX 76903

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Artists of Texas

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NO WHERE BUT TEXAS

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Felicia Marshall

“Dressed Up”

“Alone”

Left page: “Sunshine on Hope”

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Red Earth Red

Mustang

Mary Jo Zorad contemporary fine art

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Index of Features and Advertisers

Alan M Hunt 129 Alejandro Castanon 152-153 Andrea Abraham 130 Ann Squire 32-41 Annie O’Brien Gonzales 4-5 Anthony A Gonzalez 46-47 Artists of Texas 154-155 Barry Scharf 16-23 Benjamin Cheshire 103 Bob Coonts 50-51 Carmel Jenkins 116 Carol Engles 28 Carol Jo Smidt 13 Carole Andreen-Harris 58-67 Daily Painters 163 Davis and CO 44-45 Diane Whitehead 42-43 DPAG 150-151 Drew Keilback 120 Elizabeth Chapman 102, 135 Eric Bodtker 104-105 Felicia Marshall 156-157 Gabriel Panev 117 Greg Simmons 73 Helen Baily 89

Hristo Panev 118 Ivanichka Paneva 119 Janet Broussard 68-69 Janna Kappeler 88 Jonelle T McCoy 29 Juan Jose Espinoza Soto 126 Judi Kent Pyrah 131 Judy Mackey 140-141, 134 Judy Wilder Dalton 75 Kimberly Conrad 148-149 Kristine Kainer 146-147 Lady L 142-143 Laurie Pace 3, 54-55 Leidija Ivanek-SiLa 124 Lelija Roy 14 Lillian Neal 76-77 Linda McCoy 24-25 Lisa McKinney 108-109 Logan Bauer 30-31 Lunelle Gilley 72, 138 Maria D’Angelo 78-85, 139 Marti Leroux 74 Mary Jo Zorad 158-159 Michael Hotz 122 Michelle Hogan 12,121

Mirada 10-11 Nancy Christy-Moore 26-27 Nathalie Kelley 163 Nick Gonzalez 123 Palette Knife Painters 144-145 Renee Fukumoto 110-113 Roger Akesson 128 Roseanne Snyder 86 Ruth Buchanan 132 Sanda Manuila 15 Sara Genn 8-9 Sara Hodson 125 Shirley Anderson 52-53 Silvana Gabudean 133 Stephaine Paige 56 Suzy Pal Powell 87 Texas Trails Gallery 106-107 Theresa Paden 70, 136 Thomas Allen Pauly 137 Tony Stromberg 90-101 Tracy Miller 71 Trine Meyer Vogsland 127 Valerie Travers 48-49 VL Rees 57

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Nathalie Kelley

“Time will Tell�

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