If you like our writing, we’d be much obliged if you would click the ❤️ or the 🔁 icon on this post so more collectors, art lovers, and artists can discover us on Substack. 🙏 A daily newsletter featuring today’s finest visual artists. Today's Newsletter is Brought to You by BoldBrush CircleCreating Art is about Creating Magic. BoldBrush Recommends: Shandy StaabBiographyRooted in colorful Colorado, Shandy Staab paints the life she lives. Growing up on a horse ranch and currently co-managing Eternal Hope Equestrian Centre encourages Shandy's artistic countenance. Paintings created with her own inclining's embrace the equestrian, agricultural and outdoor lifestyles; depicting horses and other domestic animals, wildlife and landscapes. Instructed by her mother from the time she could hold a drawing tool, Shandy learned shading and light source at an early age. Her equestrian skills and artistic talents were acknowledged early on; from three National equestrian championships before age 10, to winning numerous art contests as a grade schooler. Since realizing her B.A. Fine Art and B.A. Economics degrees from Colorado State University in 2010, Shandy has continued to pursue creative evolution and education through self study. In October 2018, she won a Top 5 Award and a World Champion Title during the World Percheron Congress and was part of the Artist's Alley event, where she displayed over a dozen paintings, all relating to draft equestrian and agriculture. Fine art and equine have been her life. Her devotion to the draft horse industry, and depiction thereof, she believes, resurrects a gratefulness to the past with earnest innovations. Her artistic outlook is ever changing; and creating rich purposeful art, has never been more at the forefront of her musings and focus. In the face of an otherwise severed eventuality, Shandy hopes her works inspire connectivity to something absolute. "I'm deeply inspired in such a way, that few words can muster definition... So; I paint." ~ Shandy She believes her strength, is the conveyance of emotive quality in all her work, be it a non-objective, abstract or naturalistic piece. Shandy's works are part of Private and Corporate Collections across the U.S. with a concentration of collectors in Colorado who own multiple pieces. Artist's Statement: "It brings me great pleasure to emotively connect with nature, humans and surroundings through a painting. When verbal expression won't do justice, a painting will. Expressive color and intentional brush strokes can create an essence... a sense of character. My work is genuine in its energies, to narrate the depths I realize. Many of my works display a visual softness, void of harsh line or sharp edges. Often, the colors smudgily rest on one another: all the while, uttering naturalistic qualities. Your eyes are welcomed to comfortably muddle through the painting at will; resting in soft brush work and rousing to insightful color. My originals are heartened from the horses which I'm bound. They are my muse. Even when the subject is far from equine, these furry counterparts encourage me. Their sincerely candid manner, their work ethic, power and grace; their honesty and devotion. Deeply inspiring in such a way, that few words can muster definition... So; I paint." FASO Loves Natasha Isenhour’s oil paintings! See More of Natasha Isenhour’s art by clicking here. Wouldn’t You Love to work with a website hosting company that actually promotes their artists?As you can see, at FASO, we actually do, and, Click the button below to start working New Artwork by FASO Members Your art could be here tomorrow, for free. |