Jaime Corum’s equine portraiture captures the conformation and the spirit of the horse through an understanding informed by years of experience in equine sports. A proud Kentuckian, she spent her formative years partly in the saddle and the rest of her time painting and drawing horses. From this hands-on experience and years of focused practice, she developed her artistic eye and skill for capturing her equine subjects. She received her MFA from The University of Kentucky and continued to fine tune her art while teaching art at the collegiate level. As her career progressed, she returned to her mountain studio home where she paints full time and continues to emerge into the international sporting art marketplace.

https://www.jaimecorumequineart.com

Aimee Smith is an international golf landscape and still life artist who lives and paints in Nashville, Tennessee. She creates large scale, archival oil paintings, and draws inspiration from the painting techniques and materials used by the “Old Masters” of the Renaissance and Hudson River School. She is licensed by St Andrews Links, Pebble Beach, Royal Dornoch and others. She is a member of the Chestnut Plein Air Group, the Academy of Golf Art, Portrait Society of America.

When she isn’t on a golf course painting or gathering reference photos, you can find her in the studio creating larger scale golf landscapes.

https://aimeesmithstudios.com

My husband and I were visiting a beautiful, quaint gallery in Kinsale. Have you ever been completely speechless when you laid eyes on that one painting that moved you to tears? Well, that is what happened to me! I was standing in the middle of the gallery, without words, and moved by one of the most beautiful paintings that I have ever seen. From that moment, I knew I wanted to become an artist. All of my life, I have been involved with many different art forms, such as musical theatre, playing several musical instruments, and other artistic expressions. Creativity has infiltrated every season of my life and brought me through many difficult times. Being able to create paintings that reflect who I am and what I love is an amazing blessing. Art is a journey that brings hope to a world where there has been so much uncertainty. Ecclesiastes 3:11 states, "He has made everything beautiful in His time." I believe that art is a tangible gift that will move you, inspire you, and encourage you to look deep within your soul. As Frederick Buechner states, "The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world's deepest hunger meet." My creative process is mainly in the medium of oils with an impressionistic representation. I am truly honored to create original paintings from the heart using an array of bright, intense colors with a unique palette knife format. When you see that one special piece of art, may it take you to a place of peace and endless possibilities for your life.

https://kimperrystudio.com/

Richard Sullivan is an artist and former professional baseball player with the Atlanta Braves. Born and raised in Louisville, KY, he studied at the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) where he received a BFA in Illus-tration. He had the opportunity to play baseball at SCAD and to continue his interest in art and illustration. In 2008, Richard was drafted by the Braves in the 11th round as a junior and played 6 years of minor league baseball. He returned to SCAD in 2014 to finish his degree and focus exclusively on his artwork. His work has been accepted into the permanent collection of the National Baseball Hall of Fame, the Yogi Berra Museum and exhibited by the Louisville Slugger Museum and the Kentucky Derby Museum. Over a dozen Major League Baseball players, including Tom Glavine, collect his work. In 2017 the Atlanta Braves commissioned Richard to create 18 original watercolor paintings and 20 prints for their new stadium SunTrust Park. The paintings line the corridors of the Champions suite and the Executive Offices. The Atlanta Falcons commissioned Richard to create a portrait of their owner, Arthur Blank, that hangs in the owner’s suite of the new Mercedes Benz Stadium. In 2019, Richard collaborated with Topps to create 20 paintings for the Momentum Rising card set. This series features bright, young MLB stars. In 2020 and 2021 Woodford Reserve commissioned Richard to create artwork for the Commemorative Woodford Reserve Kentucky Derby Bottle. His mission as an artist-athlete is to high-light the parallels between sports and art, connecting two seemingly divided worlds that, in reality, require the same sense of dedication, practice, and expertise. His work has been featured nationally on MiLB.com, Fox Sports, Fox Sports South and numerous magazines including The AJC, Kentucky Monthly, Insider Louisville, The Courier Journal, Louisville Magazine and the Louisville Voice.

To learn more about Richard and his work, visit www.richardsullivanillustration.com.

Native to Tennessee, Bobby has called Kentucky home for several decades. With a keen eye for Americana, Bobby captures the unique take on the every day experience.

https://www.framesonmaingallery.com

Legendary and renowned equine photographer. Through his lens the world witnessed Queen Elizabeth II visit to the Bluegrass along with the most famous titans of the turf.

https://the-tony-leonard-collection.myshopify.com

Jennifer S. Kelly fell in love with horse racing when she read Walter Farley’s Black Stallion series as a child and watched the filly Winning Colors beat the boys in the 1988 Kentucky Derby. A lifelong reader and writer, she took her love of the written word to the classroom, teaching both first-year composition and technical writing for over a decade. Now a freelance turf writer with bylines in multiple publications, Jennifer has parlayed that experience into researching and writing biographies of the first three Triple Crown winners in her two books, Sir Barton and the Making of the Triple Crown (2019) and The Foxes of Belair: Gallant Fox, Omaha, and the Quest for the Triple Crown (2023).

https://jenniferkellywrites.com

Milt Toby is an attorney and award-winning author who has been writing about Thoroughbred racing for more than 40 years. President of the American Society of Journalists and Authors from 2018-2020, the nation’s leading organization representing freelance writers, Milt is a popular speaker discussing the business side of writing, copyright, publishing contracts, and other legal issues affecting writers

https://miltonctoby.com/