Original Oil on Canvas, "Off to the Races"

by Kathryn Price

Featured Artist for

UNFRAMED: Off to the races, 2021

Kathryn's goal in "Off to the Races" was to show the emotions, in both the horses and the riders, showcasing their strength, intensity, and beauty of movement.

Framed dimensions 21.5" x 25.5"

The Huntsville Museum of Art Guild is honored to feature Kathryn's work for our 1st Annual UNFRAMED: off to the races. Thank you Kathryn for sharing your amazing talent with us!

Artist Information:

Price calls painting her passion and art is a way for her to nurture her creative side. Her subject matter varies all over the board from flowers, landscapes, seascapes, architecture, figures, and animals. She rotates painting each of her genres to help to keep boredom at bay with her diverse subject matter. Kathryn's goal in each of her paintings is to capture some sort of emotion within every piece. One of her favorite quotations, "I do not literally paint that table, but the emotion it produces upon me - Henri Matisse." Kathryn enjoys several other hobbies including equestrian activities. She and her husband have box seats at the Iroquois Steeplechase and between her love of horses and her love to paint motion, she naturally progressed into painting race scenes. Kathryn thrives with new challenges and painting a race scene is full of them. The challenges include correctly positioning a horse and rider with other horses and other riders, then throwing in perspective, foreshortening, values, edges, and movement. Again, keeping all the challenges together then adding in her desire to paint emotion.

Kathryn Price calls painting her passion and art is a way for her to nurture her creative side. Her subject matter varies all over the board from flowers, landscapes, seascapes, architecture, figures, and animals. She rotates painting each of her genres to help to keep boredom at bay with her diverse subject matter. Kathryn's goal in each of her paintings is to capture some sort of emotion within every piece. One of her favorite quotations, "I do not literally paint that table, but the emotion it produces upon me - Henri Matisse." Kathryn enjoys several other hobbies including equestrian activities. She and her husband have box seats at the Iroquois Steeplechase and between her love of horses and her love to paint motion, she naturally progressed into painting race scenes. Kathryn thrives with new challenges and painting a race scene is full of them. The challenges include correctly positioning a horse and rider with other horses and other riders, then throwing in perspective, foreshortening, values, edges, and movement. Again, keeping all the challenges together then adding in her desire to paint emotion.