March, 2009

Born in Washington, D.C. in 1950, and raised in Maryland's hunt
country, Lynn Wade was a professional horse woman for over 20 years
before becoming a full-time artist. Her knowledge of horses is extensive:
She dissected them while attending Virginia's Morven Park International
Equestrian Institute, served in the hunt field as a Whipper-In, managed
large boarding facilities on both coasts and began competing with
her own hunter/jumpers at age six.

Her horse career has included 'ponying' race horses at Santa Anita,
teaching up to 150 riding students per week and breaking yearlings
at a Florida Thoroughbred farm. She was co-owner/creator of
the official dressage saddle of the 1984 British Olympic Team
and has had over a dozen articles published in such
worldwide equine magazines as Polo and Equus.




Teaching the 1998 AAEA "Back to the Basics" (the blonde
days!) at the Kentucky Horse Park, Lexington.

Nationally known as an animal portraitist and magazine illustrator,
Lynn's work has garnered five nominations for Best Drawing of
the Year, (the American Horse Publications Awards), has won a
Masterwork Award at an AAEA show and been a finalist, twice, in
the annual Artist's Magazine competition which had nearly
14,000 entries. She authored and contributed artwork to the
book "The AAEA Sketchbook of Horses" published by Equus.


Signing the AAEA book at the International Museum of the Horse...
from left to right, Werner Rentsch, James Crow,
Lynn Wade and Sam Savitt.