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HORSE PORTRAITS

Oil Portrait Painting Girl with Two HorsesOur Equine Gallery is increasing in size as horse owners, parents, young riders and professionals recognize the beauty and timelessness of our portaits! Create an incredible memory of the horse years with an oil, pastel or watercolor portrait!.

In order to speed up loading time, we have split our Horse Portrait Gallery in 2 sections. The page you are reading now, with our introduction will have recent portraits, while the rest of our Equine Portraits will be on separate page: 

The Horse Portrait Gallery

What elements make your Equine portraits unforgettable? Is it the correctness and likeness of both horse and rider? Or capturing the feeling and relationship between that special horse and its owner?

Pastel Portrait Painting Horse Lynn PalmMany elements must be present to create that special portrait! For some, the horse years are fleeting. The young riders grow up, head off to college, another life and yet will always view these years as the most exciting and fulfilling of their lives! For others, the horse years never stop and continue into a rewarding career or lifelong hobby. Others come back to the world of horses after an absense. But no matter which direction you take, horses will have made you the person you are today!

Theresa and Lynn Palm with Portrait of Lynn and her HorseI grew up with Connemara ponies, 4-H, Pony Club and the Old Chatham Hunt in NY. I thrived in bareback gallops with friends down abandoned railroad tressles and the 5 mile Saturday hacks to Pony Club. The schooling and discipline required for a Pony Club B certification were intertwined with bareback dips with the horses in the cold New England creeks.
I experienced the hard work, the stall cleaning, the spring mending of fences after the snow plows had damaged them, the training of young foals, the achievements of winning with a green horse, the crunch of the snow as I walked to the barn at night, the heartbreak of the mares and foals at weaning time, the births of my mare's foals, the insanity of my part Arabian (things lived in the ground). I loved the unrelenting speed and endurance of my Thoroughbred, the steam rising from the backs of the horses during a break at a Fox Hunt on an early, cold fall morning. I accepted breaking the ice on the pond, getting back on after a fall. I loved the timelessness of driving my team of Belgians, camping with Quarter horses in the NC mountains, riding bareback through the apple orchards as a kid and lying in the pasture on a summer's day while my horse grazed and watching the clouds roll by.

For wherever the future takes you, there will always be that memory of a special horse, that special day, that incredible ride, that miracle foal, the joy and happiness on a child's face or that quiet walk through the woods and fields. As the years pass, those memories become more and more important to you! You want to not only SEE the detail of the moment but you want to FEEL it!

Pastel Portrait Horse Gem Twist and Greg BestWhere do we start?  We travel up and down the east coast to meet our clients! We usually meet  at a pre-determined location and take the reference photographs for the portrait. For most portraits, a stable, barn or horse show work great! Some clients have their own photographs and then we work together to create that special look.

To set aside a day to meet and photograph you and your horse,  or to simply chat about your portrait and get further details, give me a call today and let's get started ! Click on the images to view them larger.)




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Here are some recently completed Horse Portraits. Please visit our Horse Portrait Gallery to view more.
Pastel Portrait Horse Charlotte and JR

16 x 20 Pastel Portrait

Charlotte and JR
Raleigh, NC

Dear  Theresa,

People who ride or work with horses can always remember that special horse that stood apart from the rest.  It is often due to exceptional talent or confirmation or maybe outstanding bloodlines.  Our special horse didn't have any of those characteristics.  He was a 24 year old quarter horse with nothing special about his confirmation or his talent. What made him stand apart was his gentle nature and his willingness to do his best and  take care of his rider.  Charlotte and I have struggled since his death in October.  We miss our friend.  You can not imagine my surprise when I opened this beautiful portrait on Christmas morning.  You captured so completely the sweetness of his face and his wise old eyes.  You also captured perfectly the face of a little girl who thought he was just about the best friend anyone could have in life.  Thank you for doing such a beautiful job.  I will treasure it always.

Kitty Yarbrough

19 x 26 Pastel Portrait

Olivia and Cinzano
Charlotte, NC

30 x 40 Oil Portrait

Joan MacNair Petty and Glenn Petty
Rolesville, NC

Horse Portrait Gallery

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