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Jane Tilton, of Black Horse Studio, began her
professional art career in 1974, the year she married her husband,
Ernest. She spent many years doing art shows and horse shows, where
she would do on-the-spot portrait sketches and take orders for custom
work, and finally settled down to doing primarily commissioned art.
She has even done portraits of foundation horses for the Kellogg Arabian
Ranch under her maiden name of Jane E. Johnson in trade for Hagen Renakers!
In 1980, she obtained a copy of an early Just About Horses
which showed photos of customized model horses, and
she was hooked instantly! Though she rarely has time to do models,
she has done a few portrait models, one of which is the beautiful
National Champion Paso Fino Stallion, Monterey En Lagrimas. Owned and trained by Cindy Dilks, a long time collector, he has
been dubbed as the Black Horse Studio mascot. A nearly lifesize head
of Monterey adorns their hotel room doorway at Breyerfest each year,
as if he is peeking out to see which collector will next walk through the
door.
Jane works from good, clear photos, and all effort is put forth
so that the portrait will be a treasured piece, even after the beloved horse,
dog, cat or other pet is no longer with the owner. Her specialty
is pastel, though she also enjoys working in pen & ink, and watercolor.
As an avid model horse collector, Jane has decided to make her artwork
available in exchange for horse figurines. She especially likes
older Breyers, porcelains, resins, original sculptures and the Metlox-Poppytrail
pieces. She is currently looking for Pour Horse pieces, as well.
If you are interested in trading artwork for models, please feel free
to write and let her know what you would be interested in having done,
and which horse figurines you would have available to trade.
She always
enjoy hearing from other horse lovers! If you'd like to contact Jane, you may reach her by the email link
below: info@blackhorseart.com
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