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By Betsy Parker Rappnhannuek Nhw, Staff Writer

Give the dead monkey credit. It was a most unusual assignment: illustrate the layers of a scientific dissection ot a small monkey for a doctoral candidate at Harvard’s Museum of Comparative Zoology,

But it was that particular series of sketches that built artist Kate Brown-Wing’s “foscination with structure.” something that’s led her around the world and. most recently, to a Sperryville studio.

And here, she is exploring yet another facet in the beauty of form — horses.

What better place to set up shop as an artist, illustrator and teacher. Brown-Wing figures, than in the heart of Virginia’s horse country.

Brown-Wing, an illustrator since 1986 — starting with scientific work for museums and foundations, then moving to book illustrations before taking on private commissions — will offer art classes at her new studio at the west end of town, including a two-part “drawing horses” class next month. The first course, she said, introduces “foundation drawing.” Part two takes an analytical approach < to equine anatomy.

Brown-Wing has turned a concrete-floored commercial space — former home to Cooter’s Garage — into something with heart and personality:

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