Susan lets her “senses” lead her to these subjects that she loves to paint. For her there’s nothing like the smell of saddle leather, horse barns, and fresh cut hay; like the sound of the hoof beats of horses or the bawling of cattle in the early morning; or like watching a herd of horses peacefully grazing.

One evening I was paging through an event groom’s handbook, kind of reminiscing, and saw a photograph of a thoroughbred that was captioned, “A well turned out eventer.” I started to see defined patterns, shapes, and tones, and thought, “I could draw that.” I took out a piece of paper and that is exactly what I did. It turned out so well I had it framed.

Rohde’s paintings have been shown at many important equine events including the Wyoming Governor’s Invitational Wild Horse Art Show and Sale, the Art of the Horse national juried exhibition in Gladstone, New Jersey, and a Belmont Park Racetrack charity fundraiser at Saratoga Springs, New York.

Featuring the work of Patrick Ching, a reknowned nature artist and owner of Naturally Hawaiian Gallery in Waimanalo, Oahu, Hawaii.

Tony´s first and foremost artistic passion usually takes equine form, he is also indivisibly drawn to their surrounding landscape. Whilst his sole-horse pieces have a detailed anatomical specificity to them, his landscapes are more evocative of the wild, tempestuous forces of our earth.

I have never really known what came first for me: art or the horse. I think it was the beauty and power of the horse that drove me to attempt to capture that essence on paper and in sculpture.

I became an artist when I realized exactly how I could express this love that I have for my surroundings. All of the beauty in nature that I saw could be translated with brush, canvas and paint. More importantly, as I have lived in a farming community being squeezed out by urban sprawl I, too, have felt the pressure of redefining my viewpoint through painting.

Being involved in the horse racing industry for over thirty years has provided Sharon Crute the distinctive ability to create dynamic equine paintings expressing powerful movement and speed. Her experience at the racetrack stretches the gamut from hotwalker to racing official.

Patricia achieved fame internationally for her remarkable life size bronze sculpture installed in front of The International Museum, at the Kentucky Horse Park, and in front of the American Saddlebred Museum.

The fundamentally inherent allure of art is the spiritual connection with the essence of my soul. To separate them would be to remove the intense vitality from a symphony. I graciously embrace the compelling need to create. Art is the embodiment of every emotion I feel, and the horse is the vehicle I use to translate those feelings.