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| Email: GayleneBronzes@Yahoo.com | (435) 635-1534 |
| 96 South Mill St. Virgin, Utah 84779 | |
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Gaylene Worthington grew up in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and Dallas, Texas. As a child, Gaylene spent a lot of time reading about horses and began drawing and painting them. As she remembers, she was never bored as there were always paint, paper and clay (which she obtained from the newly excavated basements in her neighborhood). She recalls that in her pre-horse-owning days, as a child, she rode a bicycle several miles on the gravel roads of Linn County, Iowa, in order to draw Shetland ponies in a fenced pasture. During her grade and high school years, Gaylene was encouraged by teachers to paint and draw "something else besides horses".
While in college, she pursued a classical education in art and earned a degree in art education from Southern Utah State University. During this time she produced award winning watercolor landscapes and portraitures in oil. She reserved her studies of equine anatomy for post-graduate work and personal study. She is now a sculptor and painter of horses of all breeds. Gaylene has owned and bred horses for over 20 years. Her intimate knowledge of the mental as well as the physical aspects of the horse makes her portrayals accurate and full of life. Just as an experienced horseman running his hand down a horse's cannon bone, around the fetlock joint, and sweeping across the coronet band will discern any irregularity there, so this experience influences her anatomically accurate and vibrant sculptures. According to Helen Crabtree, "Her bronze statues could pass a vet test..." (The Different Ways of Learning, Saddle &Bridle, June 1989). Gaylene's artistic goals have always been the highest, with her role models being artists such as Delacroix, Gericault, Michelangelo, and the great English painter, George Stubbs. Her style, however, is her own, which she describes as "realistic" with the artistic license to communicate the essence, unique personality, and state of mind of the subject. No one portrays the beauty and powerful vitality of the horse's motion like Gaylene. Horse lovers, prominent owners and breeders across the nation, such as Martha V. du Pont of Nemours Morgan Farm, are collecting Gaylene's sculpture. There are more than twenty limited editions, including commissioned portraits of regional and national champions. Gaylene Worthington truly captures the spirit of the horse in bronze. Gaylene's work has been published in The Carriage Journal, Horse and Horsemen, Saddle & Bridle, and The Morgan Horse. |