Equine Art Show and Gallery Sale

Equine Art Show and Gallery Sale

Once again the Fall Classic Breeders' Sale will host the added attraction of an Equine Art Show and Gallery Sale. Equine artists were invited to submit work for consideration for use as the poster and catalog cover artwork. The Committee received many wonderful submissions, making the choice very difficult. Selected pieces from the submitted artwork will be displayed for your enjoyment and offered for sale at the Fall Classic Breeders' Sale venue.

We will adhere to the tradition of selling the original artwork used for the poster and sale catalog cover as Lot 0 of the auction on Sunday. Many additional and equally marvelous pieces of art have been submitted by our participating artists and will be on display and priced to sell. All artwork is framed and ready to hang. To purchase one of the pieces, simply visit the sale office. A portion of the proceeds from all of the art sales is contributed to the support of the CWHBA Alberta Chapter. We encourage you to take advantage of this wonderful opportunity to purchase work from some of Canada's premier equine artists and support our organization.

The contributing artists make this show possible and we extend to them our thanks. We hope you agree that the Art Show and Gallery Sale creates another dimension to the prestige and elegance created at the Fall Classic Breeders' Sale.

The Artists

Donna Bernstein Lakefork, Idaho
(208) 634-2418
Donna Bernstein creates highly expressive contemporary equine art in asian-inspired inks, acrylic canvases, bronze sculptures. Her large-scale series "Cave Paintings" honors the original cave artists and their own primal fascination with the equine form. The first of these, "Blue Cloud", was featured in the Official Program of Equitana Brisbane, Australia, 2002. "Buck" is a celebrated bronze created for the internationally-acclaimed Therapeutic Riding Program of the National Ability Center, Park City, Utah, and was featured in "Equine Vision" magazine in September, 2001. The abstract "Purple Paint" was chosen commemorative art of the Western Idaho Horse Fair, February 2000. Currently, her new sculpture "Gosling" is being featured both in "Horses & Art" magazine, as well as at the J. Whitney Fine Art Gallery in Southington, Ct., along with "Buck", who is also featured at The Narrow Space Gallery, Tipperary, Ireland. Donna is a member of the distinguished Equine Art Guild, the Equine Studies Institute of California, the Society of Equestrian Artists, UK., a Board member of the McCall Arts & Humanities Council and a member of the Arts Council, Pendleton, Oregon, the Sun Valley, Idaho, Center for the Arts, and the Saratoga County, New York, Arts Council. She is a member of the Premiere Portfolio Artist Collection at AbsoluteArts.com, as well as showcased on ArtVitae.com of Tipperary, Ireland, and ArtCanyon.com of Atlanta, Georgia. Represented Internationally by Perdurabo Fine Art of London, England, her work is in numerous private and public collections. Many of her pieces are available as Limited Edition Giclee Prints. Donna invites you to visit her at www.RunningWindArt.com. True to form, Donna's sense of expression reveals a dynamic yet subtle affinity between woman and horse, and her own unique connection to those that run with the wind.

Tina Bradshaw Collingwood, Ontario
(705) 446-1880
Canadian realism artist Tina Bradshaw began to record her love of nature and the outdoors at an early age. Her passion for wildlife and horses inspired her to paint equine images. Tina's background in illustration and design gave her the basis to create her high realism paintings. Tina's creative sense of color, reflective light and strong design are visually recognizable in her unique personal style. She can work in a variety of mediums, but prefers acrylic on canvas because of the flexibility and vibrancy of color. Her body of work consists mainly of wildlife, equine and fine sporting art. Her originals, limited edition prints, and canvas transfers have been sold to private collectors across Canada and the United States. Currently, she works from her studio doing corporate and private commissions.

Bev Clark Port Elgin, Ontario
(519) 389-4561
From as early as she can remember, Bev Clark has had two constant passions in her life: horses - with their indomitable spirit and grace - and the need to capture every nuance of that beauty on paper. Clark's formal training as a commercial artist, specifically, in graphic design, brought discipline and confidence to an innate artistic ability. In addition, her other career, as a farrier, has given her an understanding of the physiology of the horse rarely matched by other equine artists. Constantly seeking to remain fresh, Clark uses a variety of mediums to express the subtlety of mood and emotions in her art: pencil and conte, acrylics, coloured pencil and gouache. Clark's most recent works have taken a more ethereal, expressionistic turn. And though she has made her reputation as an equine artist, she has never been limited to that. Increasingly, Clark is receiving a large number of commissions to draw and paint other companion animals. In 1995, her work "Almost Ready" won first place in the pencil division at the annual Equine Art Auction, held at the prestigious Royal Winter Fair. As further indication of the quality of her work, the piece was promptly bought by one of the jurors.

Susan Gordon Richmond, British Columbia
(604) 278-2388
Susan Gordon graduated from Dr. E.P. Scarlett High School in 1977, at which time she was taking riding lessons with the late Margaret Ellard in nearby Fish Creek and boarding her Appaloosa Stallion, Top Canadian, at Spruce Meadows. In addition to horses, art was Susan's first love and the teachers at E.P. Scarlett were often frustrated with her ability to turn almost every assignment into something to do with horses! After taking art and marketing classes at Mount Royal College, Susan went to work in the advertising department at Woodward's, Chinook Center. When she eventually moved back to B.C., Susan rode and trained event horses, hunters and jumpers, and continued with advertising and artwork. After spending the past 14 years in Arizona (12 in Phoenix), Susan now lives in beautiful Sedona and spends her time teaching dressage and hunt seat equitation, and painting, of course! Susan's "Pep Talk" being exhibited at the Fall Classic Breeders' Sale is from a snapshot taken on one of her recent trips back to the Spruce Meadows Masters, a place that continues to hold wonderful memories from her teen years.

Janet Griffin-Scott Port Hope, Ontario
(905) 786-2963
Janet Griffin-Scott was raised in Midland, Ontario where she owned and showed Thoroughbreds and Arabians, had a horse in the backyard, worked on a stud farm after school, and used to get in trouble with her teachers at school for drawing horses all over her notebooks! She attended York University's four-year Graphic Design/Illustration/Photography program and started her own freelance art business after graduation. After ten years as a commercial artist, Janet started an equine and wildlife art gallery and framing business in her home/studio. She published "Equine Art News" for five years, all the while organizing several equine art auctions and shows at Toronto's Quarterama and the Royal Winter Fair. She has also shown her artwork at the Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibit, Equitana in Louisville, KY, in Long Island, at the Wye Marsh Wildlife Festival, the Cobourg Waterfront Festival, Art in the Park Uxbridge and Oshawa, and at the Great North East Wildlife Festival in Niagara Falls, New York. Janet's work has also appeared in numerous magazines, newspapers, and on Greeting Cards. Her commissioned portraits have been very successful, with over 200 completed portraits to date. The number of stores that carry her art, cards, and giftware is counted at 650 in Canada, US, the UK, Switzerland, Germany and Denmark. Janet works with meticulous detail in acrylic, oil, pencil, pencil crayon, charcoal and pen-and-ink, but her favorite media by far is watercolour.
In 2000, Janet realized a lifetime dream of living on a farm and caring for her own horses. She and her husband James have two children and, on their ten acres they have Cinnamon, her two month old colt Billy, Jake, a two year old Quarter horse and Risky, Janet's 20 year old retired competitive trail racing and hunter horse.
Visit Janet online at www.janetgriffinscott.com

Judy Wood Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
(306) 373-6007
Judy Wood is an established equine artist (and Canadian Warmblood owner) based in Saskatoon. A specialist in realistic original design work, she has become well known for her animal work, particularly dogs and horses, although she is interested in all aspects of the natural world. Other subject matter portrayed in her work includes rodeo and working cowboys, Native people, both contemporary and historic, polo, racehorse and carousel art. For the past several years, Judy has worked primarily in the medium of glass mosaic. This allows her to do the highly detailed work she enjoys, while at the same time producing a virtually non-breakable, unfading work of wall art. Mosaic has a tradition going back over four thousand years, and is one of the classic art media now enjoying a revival. Her other media include, but are not limited to, collage, painted tiles and cast relief works, all on an equine theme---all breeds, all disciplines. Judy shows regularly at the Spruce Meadows Equi-fair (during the Masters tournament), and her works have been accepted into the American Association of Equine Artists fall shows in Kentucky. Her mosaic works have been featured in several British and American mosaic books, and in equine art magazines in the US. Examples of Judy's works can be seen on her website www.glasswoodstudio.com or by emailing the artist and inquiring to see the latest.

Joanne Metz-Laberge Cover Artist Medicine Hat, Alberta
(403) 529-9344
Joanne Metz-Laberge has created hundreds of pastel and ink drawings. A tightly-cropped, large-format pastel image featuring horses relaxing is her signature style. The attention to detail is instantly apparent and brings the equine images alive. Some of her pastel images are available as posters and commissioned pieces grace private collections as far away as Argentina, England and the U.S.A. Raised on the family farm near Medicine Hat, Metz-Laberge remembers summers astride her white pony and schooldays dreaming and doodling horses. Art school followed, as well as showing her Saddlebred mare. This horse crazy girl matured into an accomplished rider, breeder and artist. She remains in Medicine Hat, living on 10 acres with her husband Ron, school age son and daughter, and seven horses. The whole family participates in rearing foals and tending to the horses. The herd is varied, consisting of a Saddlebred, a Quarterhorse pony, two Welsh hunter ponies, an Oldenburg mare with her Premium daughter, and the most recent addition, a Canadian Warmblood colt by E.R. The summer is busy with breeding schedules, travel to horse shows and accompanying Ron to drag car races where he fills his need for speed. Joanne is pursuing the raising of Warmbloods from a small select band of Premium and Main mare book mares. Winter is time for artwork. Each room seems to house its own art project. Joanne spends time in her studio capturing the images with pastel crayons. She prefers to work on large textured stock, perhaps 30 x 40 inches. At any given time she has many projects on the go, ranging from quilting to sculpture. If she is relaxing in front of the TV, you will often find her creating pointillism drawings (an intricate arrangement of tiny dots) with pen and ink. These smaller drawings are featured on greeting cards. Joanne¹s passion for everything equine shines. Her acute knowledge of horse habits and conformation is evident in her art. For more information she can be contacted at jlaberge@canopycanada.net

ORIGINAL ARTWORK - CATALOG COVER AND POSTER

"MOTHER'S TOUCH" Lot 0
24" x 36" Framed Pastel By Joanne Metz-Laberge
A deeply rich portrait of a beautiful Warmblood mare with her new foal!
The original artwork used for the Fall Classic Breeders' Sale poster and catalog cover is offered as the first lot at the Sale. This wonderful piece is framed, matted, and ready for hanging.

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