More about my paintings ... and me

Hello Everyone, 

I am Amy Miller and I am an artist.  I love to paint scenery and animals.  That is about my favorite to paint.  I did love working on paintings of my children. 

Right now I am painting horses.  Horses were my first love to draw.  When I was a kid I was facinated by horses.  At springtime every year I would get this urge to go and ride my horse.  In the springtime, I would get the cobwebs off the saddle and get ready to ride.  It is probably that way for all horse lovers.

When I was a kid I would ride on my horse for hours in a timber area by my house.  I would go riding down in the timber through trees, bushes, water, etc.  There were lots of ways to train a horse by going horseback riding in that area.  I also loved to ride my horse in the arena, continuing to teach my horse about any new discipline that the horse might need.  I wasn't an expert about horses by any means but I really enjoyed riding and learning new things. 

I was involved in 4-H as a kid.  I loved doing 4-H with my horse.  I learned lots of things about the horse from doing that.  We had 4-H horse camp every year where we actually went up in a mountainous campsite, where there were cabins to sleep in, and we would sign up for classes and learn lots of new things about the style of riding that we were learning at the time.  By midweek, the older kids would go further up into the mountains on our horses for an overnight trip.  It was a blast.  We would travel up the trail, spend the night up in the mountains and then come back down the next day.

Call it horse fever!  That's why I'm working on horses as a main subject in my paintings now.