"The love I have for all things horses, from when I was a little girl, their beauty, scent, strength and honesty is where my desire to recreate them in art began, and so too my love for pencils and paper."About Kathy LeJeuneKathy is a 64 year old Christian, wife, mother, grandmother and breast cancer survivor. She was born in California but grew up in southern Oklahoma with a little time here and there in Texas. Raised on the back of a horse she spent every minute of her days riding at local playdays, country roads and pastures. When she wasn't riding horses her obsession with them had her drawing them. Kathy has no education in art so what she drew was just what pleased her.
As an adult the drawing was left behind when she married, became a mother and invested full time into raising three children to become intelligent, respectable and caring adults, as well, of course the love of horses also.
In 2009 Kathy was diagnosed with stage 2 breast cancer. She underwent surgery, chemotherapy, radiation, and in 2010 was diagnosed cancer free.
When Kathy and her family moved to south Louisiana she began working in the school system and spent twenty years working with students until Covid closed schools across the country in 2020 and she found herself at home alone all day, an empty nester with nothing to do. The Lord led her to a drawing tablet once again and blessed her with revisiting and striving to better her drawing ability as well as having family and friends to encourage {push} her. She joined an art association locally that same year and was recently elected as vice president.
In 2024 she was juried into Women Artists of the West as an associate artist.