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Jennifer Fosgate Art Collections

Shop for artwork from Jennifer Fosgate based on themed collections. Each image may be purchased as a canvas print, framed print, metal print, and more! Every purchase comes with a 30-day money-back guarantee.

Artwork by Jennifer Fosgate

Each image may be purchased as a canvas print, framed print, metal print, and more! Every purchase comes with a 30-day money-back guarantee.

About Jennifer Fosgate

Jennifer Fosgate Artist Statement:

Throughout my lifetime, favored themes have given me inspiration over and over again. Windy landscapes, vast skies, suns and moons, rocks and water, and always, the exciting image of the horse. Crude four legged beasts scrawled by my toddler hands were among my first drawings, which I slowly perfected as a young girl. As a college student, earning a degree in creative arts, horses occasionally showed up in illustrations. Struggling through my youth, trying to make ends meet selling paintings and drawings here and there, I still made quick sketches and doodles of fleet footed animals to steady my hand. And although other themes dominated my paintings, and other careers took up my time, horses were always there, dancing in the background.

With resolute force, real live equines rushed back into my life when my daughter began her own love affair with the horse. Like many parents before me, I found myself unavoidably taking on an unfamiliar role. In my case, it was the role of a Horseshow Mom. As I sat watching lessons and horse shows, and eventually an athletic thoroughbred mare galloping across our own pasture, a curious thing happened. Seemingly with a mind of their own, horses crept back into my artist's hand. One day, there was a horse, somehow appearing amongst the abstract brush strokes of a large landscape of the sea. The next canvas had two, and the next three. I passed them off as little trivialities not to be taken seriously. Then came Dressage. Here was something that combined my lifelong love of the horse with my ever present passion for art.

Fortunate enough to have been offered a position as a working student at a dressage training center, my gifted child was introduced to high quality horses and the equestrian discipline of Dressage. As she began learning the art of persuading her mount to perform the classical movements, I learned how to see more than just a lovely horse moving sideways across an arena. Watching her and her mentor's flowing achievements on these enormous animals was a thing of beauty to behold. Then, in 2010, after we returned from two weeks as spectators at the World Equestrian Games in Lexington, Kentucky, I knew what was next for me as an artist. I had witnessed Grand Prix Dressage at its pinnacle, and the horse could wait no longer. After five decades of being pushed aside by other themes, the time had come to take seriously the elegance of the natural movements of the horse.

Education & Experience:
Bachelor of Arts Degree, Creative Arts
Commercial Artist - Graphics & Illustration
Professional Architectural Rendering Artist

Publications:
All the Pretty Little Horses; New Colors for an Old Lullaby
Alphabet Trot; Nonsense ABC's Straight from the Horse's Mouth
When Cow Pies Bloom; A Novel
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Exhibits & Awards:
Atelier Gallery, Santa Cruz - Group Exhibition
Bargetto Winery, Soquel - Solo Exhibition
Chaminade Artists Series, Santa Cruz - Group Exhibition
Davenport Resource Center - Solo Exhibition
Del Monte Center, Monterey - Art Show Exhibitor
Felton Arts & Crafts Show - Art Show Exhibitor
Flying Tails, Dancing Hooves - Solo Exhibition, Fresno
Hollister Street Faire - Art Show Exhibitor
Hornitos Enchilada Feed - Art Show Exhibitor
Leal Winery, Hollister - Art Show Exhibitor
Made in Mariposa - Exhibitor
Mariposa Art & Wine Festival - Art Show Exhibitor
Mariposa County Fair - Award Winner
Mariposa County Visitor's Center - Solo Exhibition
Natures Cycles, Santa Cruz - Solo Exhibition
North Coast Impressions, Rancho del Oso - Solo Exhibition
Ocean Art West Wing Gallery, Pacifica - Group Exhibition
Riverside County Fair - Award Winner
San Juan Bautista Arts & Crafts Fair - Award Winner
Santa Benito County Fair - Award Winner
Santa Cruz Art-in-the-Park - Art Show Exhibitor
Santa Cruz County Fair - Award Winner
Santa Cruz Public Library - Art Exhibit with Carol Setterlund
Sierra Art Trails Open Studio Tour
Stellar Gallery, Oakhurst - Group Exhibition
Yosemite Renaissance - Group Exhibition, Award Winner