I finally cleaned out the home schooling materials from the motorhome and replaced them with my art supplies. It is parked at the old barn where I keep our two black mustang mares, Luna and Wenona.
After years of fits and starts, I'm ready to focus on my fine art. I've worked off and on for the past twenty years in commercial art- graphic design, studio management, murals, portraiture, etc. But now I'm ready to start creating for myself and for the sheer joy of it, and I want to share this ongoing journey with anyone who would like to come along.
Having the girls close to my studio is incredibly inspiring. When I'm ready to take a break and get a breath of fresh air, I just have to walk a few hundred yards to where they are (unless they are out in the pasture), and they are always happy to see me. This is how I've always envisioned being an artist- being surrounded by beauty and life, and translating it into artwork.
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Karrie Steely, equine artist
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Artist Statement
I’m a 3rd generation Colorado native, a descendant of truck drivers & scientists. I’ve worked in many fields, from homeless shelters to entrepreneurial endeavors. But when asked what I am, I say that above all I am a mother, an artist and a horsewoman.
Being surrounded by animals and nature is essential to my work. My studio is a retrofitted RV that is parked at a farm, surrounded by my horses and farm critters. I’m passionate about the profound relationships that horses have between each other and with their women, and I express that through my art. My favorite medium is livestock marker (a large, oil-based, very permanent ‘crayon’). I love the paradox of using a tool that ranchers use for marking livestock to bring these animals to life on canvas!
I create because I feel compelled to share the beauty I perceive in the world. My art is a conduit between the realm of feeling and emotion, and the concrete corporeal world.
Being surrounded by animals and nature is essential to my work. My studio is a retrofitted RV that is parked at a farm, surrounded by my horses and farm critters. I’m passionate about the profound relationships that horses have between each other and with their women, and I express that through my art. My favorite medium is livestock marker (a large, oil-based, very permanent ‘crayon’). I love the paradox of using a tool that ranchers use for marking livestock to bring these animals to life on canvas!
I create because I feel compelled to share the beauty I perceive in the world. My art is a conduit between the realm of feeling and emotion, and the concrete corporeal world.
Biography
Karrie began her art career at a young age. She won her first blue ribbon as a six-year-old in a regional youth art competition. She attended art classes at the local university with her mother as a young girl, and was accepted into a juried show for adults at the age of fourteen. She continued to study and show art though high school. She graduated from Colorado State University in 1996 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree, concentrating in Graphic Design and a Spanish minor.
After taking time off to raise her two young daughters and experiment in other fields, Karrie returned to her passion. She worked as a graphic designer in various positions, and later managed a ceramic studio where she taught ceramics painting. During this time she became a professional muralist. She regularly volunteers her time and talents to organizations that benefit children, horses, and animal-assisted therapy.
Karrie is now dedicated to fine art, focusing on large pieces rendered in livestock marker, as well as scratchboard and scratchboard and gouache miniatures. She is also working in warm glass, incorporating glass with found farm objects such as horseshoes. She won first place in mixed media in the first two shows that she entered upon her return to competition this fall: the 2008 National Women and Horses Expo Art Show, and the Lafayette Arts Council 2008 Community Show.
After taking time off to raise her two young daughters and experiment in other fields, Karrie returned to her passion. She worked as a graphic designer in various positions, and later managed a ceramic studio where she taught ceramics painting. During this time she became a professional muralist. She regularly volunteers her time and talents to organizations that benefit children, horses, and animal-assisted therapy.
Karrie is now dedicated to fine art, focusing on large pieces rendered in livestock marker, as well as scratchboard and scratchboard and gouache miniatures. She is also working in warm glass, incorporating glass with found farm objects such as horseshoes. She won first place in mixed media in the first two shows that she entered upon her return to competition this fall: the 2008 National Women and Horses Expo Art Show, and the Lafayette Arts Council 2008 Community Show.
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