Bio

Sandy Rabinowitz from Bethany, Connecticut is an illustrator, watercolorist, and wire sculpture artist. She portrays all types of subject matter in her artwork but is most known for her horses. 

Sandy’s life with horses began when she won a pony at the age of eight.  From that moment on she participated in all aspects of horse ownership, from falling off naughty ponies to showing horses she bred and trained in dressage shows, competitive trail rides and combined driving. Sandy’s firsthand observations of horses are expressed in thousands of drawings that fill sketchbooks, note pads and table mats at restaurants.

Success as an equine artist came early for Sandy when she attended Parsons School of Design in the 1970s.  While there, she illustrated a horse story that her father had made up and told her as a child. His story, The Red Horse and the Bluebird became part of a portfolio she was creating of her artwork.  Sandy showed it to an editor at Harper and Row who loved the story and chose to publish it.  After graduating from Parsons, Sandy wrote and illustrated several other picture books based on her own experience breeding and training a rather naughty horse named Sunny. They were What’s Happening to Daisy?, A Colt Named Mischief, and How I Trained my Horse.

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Throughout her life Sandy has been commissioned to paint equine portraits and illustrate horse books and magazine articles.  Dressage Today magazine published her monthly illustrations for the “Solutions” feature that appeared on the last page.