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One of Rappahannock County’s best known and most popular artists is Sandra Forbush of Foxhill Farm near Flint Hill. Forbush is perhaps best known for her paintings of horses and steeplechases as well as dogs, but she is equally sought after as a portrait painter for her masterly techniques and life-like images. She is listed in Marquis’ Who’s Who of American Women.
Forbush’s career began as a professional model in New York. Later she became a wife and mother and an active horsewoman. While recuperating from a car accident some years ago that ended her life in the saddle, Forbush felt drawn once again to the fine arts and signed up for classes at the Corcoran School of Art and Northern Virginia Community College. And her new “artistic” career took off for new heights.
Since becoming a professional artist, her works have been selected for exhibit at the American Academy of Equine Art, the Dog Museum, the Beresford Gallery in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., and the Museum of Hounds and Hunting. She also was named a Hall of Fame artist by the Virginia Thoroughbred Association, and has held one-man shows in Houston, Texas, Middleburg, Va., at the National Trust’s Montpelier, and the Farmington Hunt Club.
For the past 13 years, Forbush has become an art professor and conducts small private oil painting classes in her home. This new twist in her career was encouraged by her husband, Gus, so that she could share her talents by teaching. Much to her pleasure and pride, some of her students—like the Burdick twins, Tyler and Austin—have won a number of awards lately. She exhibits her students work in a popular Fall Exhibit each year held in the English gardens of her old farm home.
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