Davenport
This week’s cover is a life-size painting of Sherri and Jesse Crawford’s Davenport. The 31″ x 71″ painting in pastel pencil and colored pencil and depicts the bay gelding during his retirement.

Davenport, a well-known green and amateur-owner hunter in the 1990s, is still in work, and Sherri regularly jumps and hacks him around their home in Atlanta, Ga.

Van Wagoner lives and works in Middleburg, Va. She’s combined her bachelor’s degree in studio art with a life-long knowledge of animals to produce distinctive works of fine art. The animals in her mostly life-sized work come alive with texture and feeling, and she often uses unique compositions for a dramatic effect.