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LOUISVILLE MAGAZINE 4.17 141 JEANEEN BARNHART "My first passion is figure drawing," Jeaneen Barnhart says. Her nude figures, often faceless, haunt their canvases, the outlines of their bodies scribbling outward. It was one of these nudes that got the 50-year-old into equine art. She had given a figurative piece to a co- worker who knew a representative of the Kentucky Derby Festival. When the KDF employee saw the artwork, they told Barnhart's colleague they'd have to meet her. She started going to the track, taking photo after photo of racehorses, and spent a year practicing drawing and painting them. "I'm very passionate about drawing the human body, especially because of the anatomy and the muscles and the strength," she says. "e horse was more difficult. I pulled up diagrams of the bones and the muscles and really studied how a horse runs and what the muscles look like in different positions of the stride." In 1994, she and her twin sister designed the KDF poster — they went on to win the poster contest again in 1997, 2009 and 2014. Barnhart will show work at Craft(s) Gallery and Mercantile April 7 to May 13.