Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: MONDAY, April 23, 1990 TAG: 9004230073
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: A4 EDITION: STATE
SOURCE: KAREN L. DAVIS SPECIAL TO THE ROANOKE TIMES & WORLD-NEWS
DATELINE: LEXINGTON LENGTH: Medium
Virginia artist Ann Lyne was the judge. Lyne, formerly of Richmond, has exhibited her equine art in more than 75 shows and galleries.
Carol Blair of Lexington, who coordinated the art show with festival manager Bonnie Grogan, said 75 works were entered.
"We are very pleased with that tremendous response for the first show," Grogan said.
Lyne judged nine categories, including professional and non-professional divisions in horse portrait, horse-related landscape, horse-related still life and photography. Ribbons were awarded to six places per category. A separate youth division for those 18 and under also was included, but the youth category received only one entry, Blair said.
Karolyn King of Roanoke was the equine art show's overall champion. Her winning watercolor in the non-professional class was titled "Stables." The work also won first place in the non-professional portrait division.
Reserve overall champion was awarded to Mana Colvin of Lexington for her oil landscape "Out on the Range." The work also won a blue ribbon in the non-professional landscape category.
Diane Whitehead was the youth portrait winner for an untitled pencil drawing of a dressage rider.
Catherine Fleischman of Richmond won first place in the professional landscape category for "A New Home," a colored pencil drawing of a horse in a trailer.
The second-place winner of the professional landscape category was "Nothing Like Free Advice," an oil painting by Jane McCauley Newman depicting two men repairing a draft horse team harness.
In non-professional still life, Nancy Ellen McKibben Roberts of Lexington won first place for her oil painting titled "Horsewoman's Fancy on a Pink Bedroom Wall."
Ed King of Roanoke won the professional still-life category for his mixed media piece titled "Tack Room." Second-place in professional still life was awarded to Monica Sheehan Slaska of Roanoke for her oil painting, "Rope `n' Cowboy."
The blue ribbon in professional photography went to Bruce N. Hasfurther of Lexington for his unnamed color photo of a stable interior. Second-place in professional photography was awarded to Deborah Sensabaugh of Lexington for her black-and-white portrait of a harness driver.
In non-professional photography, first place went to Lynn M. Fogl for "Winter Tranquility," a color landscape photo. Maggi Rankin of Christiansburg won second place in that category for "Jimmy," a color portrait of a horse prancing in a paddock.
In the professional portrait division, Trish Nixon of York, Pa., took first and second place. The blue ribbon was awarded for her pastel and watercolor of "Whiskeyhill Beau Reve." The red ribbon was awarded for a graphite titled "Hanoverian Stallion."
Spectators had a chance to select and vote on their favorite art work, too. On Sunday, a tie-breaking People's Choice Champion award was given to Pam Talley Stoneburner of Waynesboro for "Freedom," a pastel portrait of Arabians. The work also won third place in the professional portrait category.
The People's Choice Reserve Champion award was given to Carol Blair for "Seaside Dance," a non-professional landscape of a white horse and the ocean.
Lyne, the professional judge, taught painting and drawing for five years at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. She also has led an artists' workshop in Bath County, where she resides.
The Fifth Street Sporting Gallery in Middleburg and Warrenton display her art. The gallery also exhibits her work at major horse shows up and down the East Coast.
by CNB