“…without the existence of horses I may never have begun to paint…”<\/p>\n
We live on a farm in the countryside of Wetter not far from Cologne. Here is where I was born and raised. Along with my Husband and our three children, three horses, our dog and of course Gina the cat<\/p>\n
In my childhood there was no sheet of paper safe from me. I had to draw a horse on it. On the street I painted horses with a stone<\/p>\n
In the restaurant of my parents on the beer-coasters and bill sheets with a ball pen. If there was a room to fresh up I drew horses as big as possible on the old wallpapers<\/p>\n
If there where water vapour on the window, I painted a horse on it. If you asks me when I started to paint horses I think it was to that time when I be able to hold a pen in my hand<\/p>\n
After school I was learning the job of a window dresser, doing lifesize skulptures and wall paintings, creating eyecatchers for window decorations<\/p>\n
“Can you paint my Bayka?” asks a friend of mine, back in 1994. So the first official horse portrait was born<\/p>\n
Bayka’s portrait get the ball rolling quickly for me. Some more friends and people began asking for a portrait. So it became that the portrait painting became an important part of my artwork, and helped me to finance my studies of Graphic Design at University<\/p>\n
After studies I work as an full-time Artist specialized in Equine Theme but even other animals. I do Illustrations for books and merchandising Designs with horses and dogs for several companies and many products. Prints and cards are availably nearly of all of my artwork<\/p>\n
I exhibit in Germany, United Kingdom, Austria, Italian, USA, Tschecheslowakei. Some paintings was chosen for juried exhibitions in France and the UK. In the USA I get the first prize by the Horses in Art Award and some honorable Mentors<\/p>\n
For enquiries please contact me at Christina Boetzel Limbecker Weg 17 58300 Wetter Germany, phone: 0049 \/ (0)2335 73670 , or via my home-page or email<\/p>\n
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email:christina_boetzel@yahoo.de –<\/p>\n