Sculpted out of love: Ranching artist’s charcoal works of Sandhills life gain national acclaim
(Photo by Lisa Hare) Her latest piece, depicting a western woman on horseback in the Sandhills, is meant to be a “restful image,” according to the artist.
(Photo by Lisa Hare) Brownlee’s most recent work in progress celebrating ranch life and the landscape of the Nebraska Sandhills.
Deep in the heart of the Sandhills, tucked away on a working cattle ranch, there is a little art studio from which some the nation’s most authentic western art is quietly being produced. In this humble but functional space, a young rancher, wife, mother—and now, artist— spends hours each day at her easel, translating the images, spirit and essence of real ranch life into photorealistic charcoal wo…
