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Local artists inspired by horses Date published: 4/3/2006 By KATHLEEN LEWIS By KATHLEEN LEWIS GYJA FREDERIKSEN never owned a horse, but always wanted one. "All little girls are fascinated with horses," she says. Eventually, she took matters into her own hands. Today, she's an artist whose Stafford County living room showcases colorful paintings of the animals. Frederiksen grew up in Washington, studied art in college and has shown her work in the Fredericksburg region. On one wall of her home is "One and the Same," a black figure of a horse that sizzles electric blue around the edges. The color placement in her work is intentional. Years ago Frederiksen queried a color-blind acquaintance to find out what color combinations he was able to distinguish. And then, using careful placement of the various colors, she painted something he could see. She explained that the colors outlining the figure make it possible for someone to distinguish between colors that usually appear the same. On one of her living room walls is a blue-green pony, edged in white and purple with a copper background. Under candlelight, the copper shines. This shining helps further define the horse figure. "You can see the horse by default," she explained. Frederiksen said she chooses color combinations for other reasons. "I know what that color means and what person will be attracted to the painting," she said. People who are firmly grounded in their spiritual beliefs will be drawn toward the black horse, Frederiksen explained. Other color combinations indicate creativity or various other personality traits. Her theories come from "Embrace Hue You Are," by Dewey Sadka. Another Stafford County artist shares Frederiksen's passion for creating unique equine art. For years, Robyn Ryan painted horses hunting, racing, grazing. That's how she saw them while growing up on a horse farm. But then she found herself yearning for a fresh way to represent them on canvas. "I got bored," Ryan explained. So the resident of southern Stafford County pulled out her sketchbook with its pages of equine body parts and began combining them for a colorful patchwork-quilt effect. The result was a collection of works she calls "Equine Shapes."
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