My Friend, Horse Painting

Shawn Wilson is a lifelong professional artist. A native Oklahoman, she moved to New York at 18 years old and within a short time was regularly selling her pen-and-ink drawings to New Yorker magazine. She studied sculpture at New York’s famed Art Students’ League, and has shown sculpture in galleries in New York, San Francisco and Atlanta. Shawn also paints oil on canvas, and most notably, ‘sumi-é’, (Japanese ink-brush painting). She studied this ancient art form with one of the few bona fide masters here in the U.S., Koho Yamamoto of NYC. Sumi-é suits Shawn’s artistic abilities to a ‘t’, as her work in all mediums concentrates on the essence of the subject rather than the details. While living in Tel Aviv, she received a grant from the State of Israel, and was also commissioned to paint a 30 ft. mural. Between sumi-é, drawings, oil paintings and sculpture, Shawn’s work has been shown and sold in scores of one-woman and group showings and through commissioned work.