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By Richard Lykes
Special to the Rappahannock News
Sandra Massie Forbush, an accomplished artist and now art “professor” held an exhibit of her students’ work at her home near Flint Hill this past weekend.
With a background in fashion design and art, Forbush took up oil painting as a full-time avocation after a horse-riding accident some years ago. Her home is a virtual gallery of those paintings; many portraits of horses, dogs and people.
For the past 10 years, Forbush has been encouraged by her husband, Gus, to share her talents by teaching a growing number of aspiring artists in and around Rappahannock County.
Forbush now has 13 students who meet once a week in morning and afternoon classes in the art studio of her home, Foxhall Farm.
Forbush recommends that her students begin by copying old masters and other paintings of their choice to help them to learn technique, value, color and composition.
“I always advise my students to study wellknown masters but to develop a technique and style all of their own,” she said at an afternoon reception honoring her students.
One of the paintings in the exhibit was a rendition of Vincent Van Gogh’s “Irises” painted by Peggy Arundel who also had on display an original composition of red poppies in a garden.
Other students, like Jo Mariao of Sperryville and Dr. Carole Hertz of Flint Hill, chose bucolic impressionists and Barbizon
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