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• Sculptor Maureen Love
• Equine painter Michelle Grant

Breed Profile:  The Friesian 
 

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     Noted for their exquisite beauty and romantic presence,  
this ethereal horse is often the object of little girl dreams and  
fairy tales spun of castles, knights, and their bold gallant  
chargers.  Glistening cobalt black coats envelop no ordinary  
horse flesh, but call attention to a monarch among equines,  
royalty on four legs, exuding the presence of a king.   
     Fundamental.  Favored.  Friesian.   
     Often born of necessity, breeds of horse emerged all over 
the world as companions in toil with their human masters.   
Occasionally, a fortunate few rise among the utilitarian ranks, 
surfacing like cream from milk, ready to be skimmed and  
prepared for a life not ordinary. 

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     At the time that it happened, the skill of riding represented an  
unprecedented leap forward for mankind.  With a speed previously  
unknown, a whole new way of existence emerged; people once  
accustomed to village life, or to the unchanging patterns of life bordered  
within the hard-won rows of subsistence farms, found their horizons  
opening like an infinity before them.  Thanks to the horse, Man could  
now move quickly, whenever and wherever he wished.  And that  
freedom gave early riders not only a profound new mobility, but a bold  
new attitude.  They were reborn from their previous lives as subsistence  
farmers into advanced--and quite infamous--rulers of their domain.   
     The age of the horsemen had begun. 

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     As far back as she can remember, the only thing Maureen Love  
wanted to be was an artist.  Her mother painted porcelain detail work,  
and encouraged Maureen to follow her dream.  As a young girl, Maureen  
recalls creating a goat out of clay that she had dug from the backyard,  
and her mother kept it on the kitchen window sill on display.  Some of her  
early influences came from the western art of Frederick Remington.  She  
loved to look at the paintings of cowboys, horses, and American Indians  
in many different scenes and poses.  
     During High School, Maureen took every art class she possibly could,  
while taking just the bare minimum of the other classes to get her diploma.   
She claims she didn't enjoy the math classes, but was at her best in art.