Honoring the Horse in Art
by Glenye Oakford | Oct 3, 2017, 2:19 PM EST
Horses have been a lifelong inspiration for Julie Ferris , but it wasn’t until she went to the Savannah College of Art and Design in Savannah, Ga., that she finally was able to bring her equestrian life and her artistic ambitions together. That fusion is now sustaining Ferris both personally and in her career as a visual artist. Ferris’s art is realistic without being static; it’s infused with an equestrian’s understanding of how horses move and behave. “Especially...