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She is currently working on a large p&nting for a Middleburg man who saw her work and immediately commissioned her to do something for his home. The result is an actionpacked depiction of horses coming around the top of the stretch — a painting that is full of vibrant detail and vivid color.
Her joy in her work and her love of her subjects, particularly the animals and children, have been the keys to her survival and her success. She is a keen observer of the smallest detail, which she is then able to transfer to the canvas.
Those details are often subtle and unspoken — a shade of sadness in the eye, a wash of nobility in a tired and aging face, a feeling of power and motion emanating from a horse that is standing still.
Her works runs the gamut. From straightforward dog and equine oils to far more impressionistic and lightfilled canvases, she often captures something very real, and thus revealing, about her subject.
“I am seeing everything differently now,” said Mrs. Forbush. “I go for a walk and everything is beautiful to me. There is still so much I want to do.” 1
“Doing” appears to be the operative word in her life. Bom and raised on a farm in Maryland, she attended the Maryland Institute of Art, majoring in fashion illustration. She decided to pursue a modeling career which took off immediately and for 10 years she did runway, photography and television modeling in Washington, D.C., Baltimore, Md. and New York City.
Eventually she added television commercials to her resume as well as numerous spreads in both newspa
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