“Standing Cattle” 22” x 7.5” Pen and Watercolor on Paper
I have spent years of my life watching cattle. As a rancher, one of my jobs was to watch and monitor cattle for health. I have a talent for identifying cattle that are coming down with illness. As a competitor at cow cutting competitions, studying the cattle for indications of their behavior and to remember each one of the herd as an individual, is a way to increase one's chances of doing well in the competition.
This little painting is an example of what I love about drawing cattle; even though they are all basically the same creature, they each have unique and identifying faces, lines, markings, and personalities. I love drawing cattle. They are a simple shape that is never the same from moment to moment. I love how cattle stand in groups. There is always a rhythm and pattern to the way the individuals make up the herd, and the way the light falls and scatters through, down and around their blocky forms. -- Patricia Freeman-Martin, March 2009
About Patricia Freeman-Martin: Patricia was raised in a ranching and rodeo family in Eastern Oregon, graduating from high school in Pendleton, Oregon. She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts, magna cum laude, from the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque. She moved to New York City and spent nearly five years in the East Village. During a visit home, she fell in love with a potato farmer from Southern Idaho and never returned to New York. For 16 years, Patricia and her family lived and worked on their ranch at the foot of the Elkhorn Mountains in North Powder, Oregon. Ranching and cutting horses have been an integral part of her life as well as inspiration for her art. In 2004 Patricia and her family purchased a horse ranch in Terrebonne, Oregon, near Smith Rock. Patricia has woven together a beautiful and complex life of many different themes; cattle ranching, cutting horses, family, and art. She uses a variety of mixed media to talk about her experiences in the western landscape and her style reflects her fresh, honest and whimsical way of viewing the world.
Patricia Freeman-Martin – Original
Paintings & Monoprints
March 1 through March 31, 2009
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