Marcy Grennan Anzelon came to painting horses only recently, but her passion for the endeavor is helping her make up for lost time. The subjects of her earliest commercial works were most often gardens, architecture, flags and the ocean. A showing of such works at Penelope’s in the Los Angeles area’s La Canada was well received, and shortly after that Marcy had the idea of adding horses to her serene beach scenes.

She hadn’t studied much equine art at that point and later realized that horses on the beach was well-traveled territory. Although it wasn’t an original concept, the idea had the significant upside of leading Marcy to her current life with horses.
Initially, she drew from books to add horses to her beach landscapes. “That didn’t work because I really didn’t know what I was looking at.” Although Marcy had dreamed of riding horses throughout her life, fear had kept her from doing it. The desire to understand equines better as an artist was the nudge she needed to overcome her fears and begin riding lessons.
Marcy inherited her love for horses from her father. “My dad, who was my greatest and most treasured mentor and fellow artist, had studied and worked with horses at different times in his life,” she explains. “He was the one person I could talk to and laugh and cry with about the journey of creating art. He died in May of 2004. This quest was something I could do with him even though he wasn’t here anymore.
“I wanted to just be around horses, to learn about their nature, to see the spirit, to feel the joy of the nickering, beautiful animal that welcomes one into their space,” Marcy continues.
Marcy lives in the Los Angeles area with her husband Mark and their three sons, Corey, Danny and Todd.
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