Deborah Butterfield

Keeping with the theme of inspiring Equine artists, Deborah Butterfield is possibly one of the, if not the, most notable artists whose work focuses solely on the Equine form.  

UNTITLED, 2011
Unique cast bronze with patina
28 x 35 x 9 inches

Butterfield not only focuses on horses, but her focus is also on sculpting the horse through various media. 

MAKANI, 2011
Unique cast bronze with patina
31 x 33 x 11 inches

Her expertise allows her to capture the subtle nuances of Equine body language with sticks, twigs and scrap metal. 

REDHEAD, 2005
Found welded steel 

30 x 124 x 67 inches

The works done in wood are then expertly cast in bronze, and finished to look like the original infrastructure. 

ULA, 2011
Unique cast bronze with patina
36 x 42 x 14 inches

My work is not so overtly about movement. My horses' gestures are really quite quiet, because real horses move so much better than I could pretend to make things move. For the pieces I make, the gesture is really more within the body, it's like an internalized gesture, which is more about the content, the state of mind or of being at a given instant. And so it's more like a painting...the gesture and the movement is all pretty much contained within the body. - Deborah Butterfield