Equine Artist Barbara Widmann

Artist Barbara Widmann

As an artist, there are those amazing days filled with inspiration, as brilliance fills the senses within light, form, color and emotion, to be felt in everything and everyone I encounter along my path. As an artist of the 21st century, I am continually working to keep what inspires me in front of me, but I am also confronted and challenged by change: changes in lifestyle, changes in our economy, and changes within myself. I hope to extend my inspirational days so that I can live art as part of me, not just as what I do, and to embrace the changes along the way. My hope is that you have enjoyed my gallery of artwork and that it has brought some joy and inspiration to your day.
-- Namaste,
Barbara Widmann

Barbara Widmann grew up watching her Grandfather paint his large, vivid, expressive, contemporary oil paintings, and was influenced to paint and draw at an early age. Fueled by the joy of creating, Barbara was enriched by art classes in school, and was recognized with many awards. Her artistic path took her from expressing her art through graphic arts, to architectural illustration and design, to equine art and portraiture.

Barbara paints mostly with watercolor and her subject is mostly equine. She is also skilled with oil and acrylic paints, pastels, charcoal, pen and ink, graphite pencil and color pencil. As a horsewoman from upstate New York, Barbara grew up around horses and at an early age developed a sense of the equestrian form, movement and spirit. Combining her artistic talent and admiration for horses, she reveals the beauty of horses in art. Barbara graduated with a graphic artist degree from Sage College in Albany, New York and with an illustration degree from The Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design in Denver, Colorado. Barbara worked as an architectural illustrator for several years, which sharpened her detail-orientated nature. She also enjoys painting portraits of children and pets.

Awards:

Spring Snow, Dancing Horse Farm, 2008

First Morning’s Light, Dancing Horse Farm, 2008

Strawberry In His Stall, Dancing Horse Farm, 2008

Rite, Publication award, Washington Thoroughbred Association, Summer Yearling issue, August 2007