Horse Series: Power, Grace, and Abstraction

A white horse emerges from vertical color drapes. The eye and muzzle carry the strongest value contrast; the mane unfurls in airy knife-strokes that feel wind-charged.

Asymmetric crop and off-center eye create immediacy and pull.
The neck’s diagonal meets the mane’s sweeping arc, countering the straight verticals behind it. Lost-and-found edges let the horse slip in and out of the abstract field, fusing subject and atmosphere.

Whites are prismatic.The focal anchors are the dark eye and nostril; surrounding midtones keep the head dimensional without heaviness. The warm right side vs cool left side produces a satisfying temperature dialogue.

Palette-knife drags, scumbles, and soft blends build a lively skin of paint.
Hair marks are confident and varied.

An alert, noble temperament held inside a storm of color, and a bit of theatrical light. Realism concentrates where character lives (eye, muzzle) while abstraction expresses speed and spirit.

24" x 30"

A portrait of a white horse emerges from a curtain of vertical color. The animal’s eye and muzzle are rendered with crisp, dark values; the rest dissolves into sweeping, knife-dragged paint and wind-tossed mane.

Asymmetric crop creates immediacy and a strong focal lock on the eye. The mane sweeps diagonally across the face, an elegant S-curve that counters the vertical “color drapes,” giving the image a feeling of wind and forward motion.

A high-chroma palette sets warm fire against cool depth; the horse’s “white” is a prism of blue, violet, and blush, which keeps it luminous rather than chalky.
Value anchors at the eye, nostril, and ear tips provide structure inside the chromatic storm.
Surface work mixes buttery impasto with scraped passages; palette-knife pulls and scumbles leave lively ridges that catch light and read as energy.

This work resides in a private collection.

24" x 48"

A show-jumper bursts straight toward us, frozen mid-flight. The horse’s chest is lit with hot oranges and golds, its pale mane whipping forward like sparks. Broad black tack slices crisp lines across the body, anchoring the realism, while the rider becomes an every-athlete, all focus and balance.

Two crossed rails form a bold X at the bottom edge, flinging diagonal energy up the canvas. Behind them, veils of teal, green, and violet stream vertically, like speed and stadium lights blurred into color. The result is motion and adrenaline distilled: the partnership of horse and rider leaping out of an abstract storm of light.

This work resides in a private collection.

24" x 48"

Color breaks into speed. A white horse and rider surge mid-arc over the striped rail, their bodies stitched together by black tack and focus. The animal’s eye is clear and intent; the rider’s helmet tilts into the leap. Around them the arena dissolves into shards blocks of paint that tilt like thrown banners, turning the background into a wind of geometry. Brushstrokes skip and drag, leaving raw edges and scraped light, as if the air itself were fraying under motion.

Realism anchors the essentials while the rest of the world fractures into color fields and diagonal thrusts. The pole slices the canvas, then echoes itself in a watery reflection below, doubling the risk and the reward. It’s the held breath of a jump rendered as stained glass: trust condensed into a single second, muscle and courage cutting through chromatic noise to land, clean and bright, on the far side.

This work resides in a private collection.

24" x 48"

A luminous horse strides forward in a tall, vertical canvas, chest lifted and hooves mid-step. Its coat is rendered in cool gradients that catch soft light along the neck and legs. A breeze teases the white mane and curled tail, giving the figure a buoyant, weightless energy. Around the neck, a black collar strung with bright orange tassels and a small flower rosette adds a festive accent, like parade regalia.

Behind the horse, the world breaks into faceted shards of color stacked like stained-glass planes. These geometric slabs radiate outward from the head, amplifying motion and framing the animal like a burst of prismatic light.

The anatomy is clear and realistic yet the palette and crystalline background pull it into abstraction. The mood is uplifting and confident: a “free spirit” captured at the instant of release, where grace meets velocity and the geometry of color becomes the wind at its back.

This work resides in a private collection.

24" x 48"

This painting emanates a deep and haunting stillness. At its center stands a horse, rendered with gentle realism: smooth contours, graceful musculature, and a subtly lowered head, as if caught in a quiet moment of awareness.

His gaze is calm yet searching, turned slightly away, filled with introspection. The color palette moves in waves of cool blues, muted violets, and soft grays, tones that dissolve into one another like mist or memory. Against this serenity rises a geometric and abstract background, a mosaic of angular forms and fragmented light, evoking the shimmer of nature seen through emotion rather than sight. It feels like forest shadows, fractured reflections on water, or the crystalline quiet of dawn breaking through the trees.

The contrast between realism and abstraction gives the painting its emotional power. The horse appears both real and ethereal, as if emerging from another realm. The precise geometry behind him recalls your architectural sensitivity, grounding the image in design, while his soft gaze humanizes it, breathing soul into structure.

24" x 48"

This painting radiates vibrancy, motion, and emotion. Two horses facing each other, their manes flowing in streaks of white, their faces alive with brilliant color. The background explodes in vertical bands of pure pigment evoking the rhythm of energy, music, or even conversation between the two majestic beings.

Each horse has its own aura: one cooler, introspective, perhaps representing calmness or thought; the other warmer, radiant, and expressive, like a spark of fire meeting air.

This work resides in a private collection.

24" x 30"

In this painting, I am portraying the nobility and quiet strength of the horse. The figure emerges with a realistic presence, yet it lives within an abstract world of geometry and color, where emotion and structure coexist.

The vibrant blocks of orange, blue, green, and violet create a dynamic background that contrasts with the softness of the horse’s mane and the gentle expression in its eyes. This juxtaposition reflects the harmony between nature’s vitality and the artist’s inner abstraction.

The light that travels across its body suggests motion and spirit, as if the horse were caught between dimensions: the tangible and the ethereal, the seen and the felt. It is both a portrait and a metaphor.