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Marian Duncan's
studio was once a butcher's shop at the front of her mud brick home
in the small, quiet country town of Manildra, New South Wales,
Australia. Before graduating to graphic art, she worked at
show card and ticket writing. She began painting horses
professionally in 1986, after having painting published on the
covers of the Australian Arabian Horse News and the
Arabian Horse Express (1993). Her works are all over
Australia, and she has become well known for specializing in
paintings of Arabian horses. She has paintings in the United
States, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, and Indonesia.
Since 1999,
Duncan has produced, for the Arabian Horse Society of Australia,
multi-media artworks that are used for promotional material both
nationally and internationally. Duncan works with gouache
watercolor on watercolor paper, pen and ink, pastels, and oils.
Duncan says she paints Arabian horses simply because they are her
passion. She tries to capture that special look and beauty
that every Arabian admirer, owner and breeder knows the horses have.
Combining photographs (for accuracy) of her commissions with her
many talents and her imagination, she creates truly stunning
paintings, in which her abiding lover for horses always shines
through. From the April 2007
Pyramid Report - Article by Linda White |
