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Join the National Sporting Library & Museum to observe interactive painting demonstrations with equine portrait artist Madeleine Bunbury. Madeleine will paint a polo pony from life, and we invite the audience to observe or bring supplies to paint along. For those of you who did not join us last year—you don’t want to miss this opportunity to meet, observe, and learn from this talented artist.

Madeleine Bunbury was educated in Dorset and trained in traditional portraiture for three years at Charles Cecil Studios in Florence. It was there she learned the traditional “sight size” technique and painting from life under natural light.

Madeleine’s talent extends well beyond depicting the horses in front of her. Painting from life, Madeleine can offer not only an accurate representation of the horses, but an honest insight into what makes each of them special.

“I concentrate on painting horses life size in a traditional style, from life, using my own hand ground paints and hand stretched canvases. I feel this style helps me to achieve an expressive representation which is unparalleled by modern photo realistic paintings.” (Madeleine, on her technique)