Equestrian & Wildlife Artist - Katy Sodeau

Katy has been working as a professional artist since 1995, specialising in watercolour paintings of equestrian and wildlife subjects. She became interested in equine art whilst living near Newmarket, the headquarters of British horse racing. She loves painting horses and racing scenes. Having exhibited with the Society of Equestrian Artists for many years Katy is now a Full Member of the SEA.

Katy's painting skills are mainly self taught, she originally trained and worked in architecture and still enjoys painting architectural subjects and village scenes in and around East Anglia. Having now been lucky enough to visit Kenya, Tanzania, Botswana and South Africa on safari, Katy also frequently paints African wildlife. Her particular favourite animal is the African Wild Dog or Lycaon Pictus, a page of the site is dedicated to her images of this sadly endangered predator.

EXHIBITION PREVIEW

Katy's painting "Eight Stone Weight Advantage" will be on show at the Society of Womens Artists exhibtion at the Mall Galleries, London, 23rd April to 2nd May 2009.

RECENT PAINTINGS

The newest additions to the website are the paintings shown above "The Blacksmith",a painting of one of the King's Troop farriers and "Dog Days", a watercolour of African Wild Dogs resting in the shade. For anyone needing a little cuteness there is also a new "African Wild Dog Pups Drinking" painting, complete with the story of our time spent watching the pups.

Also new to the site a whole page of Katy's Polo Paintings with polo players and ponies in action and other scenes associated with polo matches. Polo exerts a similar fascination to horse racing, involving speed, colour and action and the beauty of the horse, together with wonderful landscape settings.

Equestrian Greetings Cards

Images of six of Katy's paintings are now available in a pack of greetings cards published and sold in aid of The Injured Jockeys Fund, order the cards online here. Images include the painting of Long Hill, Newmarket shown below, visit the Gallops Scenes page for more details.