German painter Jan Kunster started painting as a young child, and his early subjects were portraits of people and animals. Shortly thereafter he realized that horses interested him greatly, especially horses in motion.

His watercolors stand out from the conventional paintings of horses because they focus on the horses. Any people in the paintings are only lightly outlined so the viewer won’t be distracted from the primary subject–the horse.

Kunster’s clients have included top horsemen throughout the world, including Rodrigo Pessoa, Dr. Reiner Klimke, Nicole Uphoff and Nadine Cappellmann. His paintings are in the art collections of horse lovers from Queen Elizabeth to Ronald Reagan.