Original artwork is a great gift idea! Whatever you celebrate this time of year, I hope it’s happy! ~ Linda More work can be seen on my...

Dance Smartly has already been featured on this blog, and this year,  daughter, Dancethruthedawn  (by Mr. Prospector)  joined her mother...

This is the finished version of the painting in my banner, above.  The painting  is a 15 x 28 oil on linen of the first time past the...

Here’s a smaller painting that I just completed.  This is an 8 x 10 oil on Signature linen panel of the finish of the 2008 Queen’s...

I apologize for the long time between posts on this blog!  Seems my studio blog has been keeping me busy.  This is a 16 x 20 oil on panel...

Another one of my daily paintings for November was of Mike Fox in the post parade before his victory in the 2007 Queen’s Plate.  This is...

I’ve been AWOL from this blog for a while.  Last month I decided to challenge myself to paint a horse a day for thirty days, and I...

6 x 8 oil on linen panel As the 2008 Breeders’ Cup approaches, it seems only appropriate that I bring up Curlin.  Curlin is by...

Copyright 2007 Linda Shantz Jambalaya’s story is the kind we’d all like to have – a modest $2500 yearling purchase who became one of...

I did this painting of 2003 Canadian Triple Crown winner and Horse of the Year, Wando, as a donation to the 2004 Jockey’s Barbeque...

Here’s another Canadian great I’ve now portrayed twice.  The same year I did the Northern Dancer painting, I donated a painting of Dance...

Northern Dancer A while back, the CBC put on a show designed to determine “The Greatest Canadian.”  Someone, in my opinion, was gravely...

Well, I found it – a photo of my first oil painting, of my favourite racehorse, Norcliffe.  I still don’t know where the original is. ...

I don’t know what it was that initiated my love for the Thoroughbred;  maybe it was Walter Farley’s Black Stallion books, or Margurite...