Artist Christine M. Cancelli has had a long and varied career involving art and horses. She can remember drawing horses at an early age, copying drawings of Sam Savitt and Paul Brown. After spending time as a graphic artist, Cancelli decided to give up her day job in 1983 and paint horses for a living.

Cancelli’s subjects have included race horses, hunters, jumpers and steeplechasers, and she’s traveled extensively to major events in the United States and Europe.

Her bold painting style, use of light and subtle palette all lend themselves to the myriad of emotions one feels while riding horses. Mrs. Hannum Riding To Hounds is a painting of Mr. Stewart’s Cheshire Foxhounds of Unionville, Pa.

Mrs. Hannum, the former MFH, spent the last few years of her hunting hounds from her Jeep. “Because she could no longer ride, she followed her hounds in her car–and I mean over fields and streams!” said Cancelli. “I thought it was a good idea for a painting.”

Cancelli, a full member of the American Academy of Equine Art, resides in Howell, N.J., with her husband Roman Szolkowski, their son, Rider, and several horses.