Jean Richardson is an artist best known for her large, abstract paintings of horses. Using a palette of jewel tones and deep earthen hues, she splashes colors across a heavily textured background letting her image emerge. Almost hidden in an explosion of brush strokes, the horses of Richardson’s imagination plunge and leap across her canvas.

An Oklahoma native, Richardson has had a lifelong interest in Western “myth”. Although she uses the contemporary vocabulary of modern painting, she finds deep connections to the frontier west.