Judy Brown grew up in a small, rural Texas town, where as a kindergartener she and the other students would ride their teacher's Shetland pony. "So large and beautiful to my young eye and more important at that age, such fun to ride, this pony became the symbol of the unattainable as I grew up without one of my own," she says. Brown went on to become a scientist and educator. After earning a doctorate in physical chemistry, and doing postdoctoral work outside Paris, she returned to the states in 1964 to a position in the physics department at Wellesley College in Massachusetts, where she spent four decades. Since taking a Photoshop II class at Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) in 2007, she has devoted most of her time to photography. Simultaneously, her interest in horses returned. "I came to appreciate the expressive power of form and texture used in these abstract images to communicate the unattainable and mysterious qualities of horses," Brown says. "This set of 18 minimalist images of a spirited pony in his stall was taken with natural lighting against a dark background isolating the form of the pony from his environment." And, she said, "They are dedicated to my subject, Elliott, the Little Leprechaun."
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