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ABOUT SANDRA
Sandra's ResumeSandra Massie Forbush BiographySandra Forbush's career as a portrait painter brings together the diverse elements of her life-as a young art student, a professional model, a mother and wife, and an active horsewoman on to one canvas. This flurry of activities and careers diverted Sandra, who grew up in Maryland and studied at the Maryland Art Institute, away from her artistic aspirations until life took another sharp turn when her days in the saddle were ended by a car accident. She had always sketched to pass time while waiting to compete at horse shows, and as she lay recuperating from serious injuries, she felt drawn to once again study art, signing up for classes at the Corcoran School of Art and the Northern Virginia Community College. Sandra is now a busy, popular artist, working exclusively in oils. Her commissions include a long list of private clients, as well as numerous horse shows and steeplechases, which use her equestrian scenes both for their posters and program covers. Her works have been selected for exhibit at the American Academy of Equine Art, the Dog Museum, the Beresford Gallery in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., and the Museum of Hounds and Hunting. She has held one-man shows in Houston, Texas, Middleburg, Va., at the National Trust's Montpelier, and several galleries in Virginia. Sandra's unique background as a horsewoman gives her an edge in understanding animal anatomy, observing individual traits, and adhering to correct details, just as her modeling career helps her hone in on and emphasize her human subject's most appealing features. She loves portraying children, and has a knack for incorporating impressionistic garden scenes or dramatic background and indoor lighting. Sandra paints many commissions of children and adults on their horses with their dogs. She also teaches painting lessons to an active group of amateurs at her home studio at Foxhall Farm. Her husband Gus is Joint Master of the Old Dominion Hounds and her daughter, son in law and grandchildren hunt with the Keswick Hunt. She has many opportunities for good paintings. The Museum Of Hounds and Hunting at Morven Park in Leesburg, Virginia has made stationery of two of her hound paintings. These cards are for sale at the Museum and various tack shops. She also has a painting of the Old Dominion Hound "Peeler" in the Museum Collection. The Masters of Foxhounds Centennial Book coming out in 2009 will have several of Sandra's paintings through out the book.
Sandra Massie Forbush Resume
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