Brett Lohn

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Brett Lohn is an artist first and foremost. He doesn’t paint horses because he wants to spend every waking hour with them. His love for the horse stems from its visual impact upon nature and his admiration is profound, this is evident throughout Brett’s work. His horses are living, breathing representations that are rich in muscle detail and colour, dominating their environment. Even from a casual inspection of one of his horse paintings, the viewer can quickly sense the deep respect that Brett holds for this most striking animal and the role it plays amid the beauty of nature.

Brett is obsessed with the marriage between the horse and its habitat. In all of his paintings the backdrop is given equal artistic emphasis to the horse itself; every environment is crafted with as much devotion to detail as nature allows. He calls this approach ‘painting what the eye sees’ and it is a sentiment which forms the ethos of Brett’s work. This principle is equally apparent in the man-made landscape of ‘Frankie’s First’ as it is in his more organic horse pictures.

Brett Lohn is totally devoted to painting and drawing and is extremely driven, spending somewhere between sixty and eighty hours each week at the easel.

Brett chose not to attend art college, preferring instead to read Art History with French at University. However he has never held any career other than that of a professional artist. He describes his honours degree as ‘a vital grounding in deciphering art critics’.

Brett holds very passionate views concerning art and his love for the subject is far reaching. He feels strongly that the artist should always be easily approachable by anybody with an interest in his work, regardless of whether the enquiry is complimentary.