2000s Original Oil Painting “Pinto Shadows #5” Equestrian by Marlan Cotner

Stunning oil on board pensive equestrian horse portrait. Melancholy horse with calming gaze. Beautiful nuetrals of browns, blacks, tans and blues. Framed with linen matte and gold frame.

Marlan Cotner is an award-winning artist from West Michigan represented in numerous solo shows in Michigan and Ohio. She has exhibited in local and regional competitions and her works are included in the collections of Governor Blanchard, Governor Engler, and James Brooks.

Her art has won awards in the Michigan Fine Arts Competition in Birmingham/Bloomfield, the Mid-Michigan Competition in St. Joseph, the Western Michigan Competition in Holland, the Small Wonders Competition in Lansing, and numerous others. She is a published artist with over two hundred illustrations in books and magazines.

Marlan has this to say about her work:
“Painting is oil and stone brushing with the past and spreading into the future. Oils last for centuries and these timeless elements come through in the still life work. The serenity and strength of these paintings endures from our time and stretches forward into our children’s and grandchildren’s time.”