Darby Holden
Darby Holden is an artist, a working farrier, and a horse trainer/riding instructor. Her job as a working farrier and her work teaching riding and training horses--expose her daily to the many different aspects of the horse that are the subjects of her drawings.
Holden's pencil sketches focus on unusual and detailed views of the horse or rider--a cutaway of an equine spine under saddle, a hoof's frog, or riders' hands on bridles, among others. She lives in the Santa Ynez area. In her spare time, she enjoys music, reading, and training and riding her own horse.