Steppe Horses
Grattography
2005
Collection of Cherryl and Jack Alexander
Copyright © 2010 Aliza Souleyeva-Alexander

 

Horses have always been my favourite subject.  I began to draw them when I was five years old, and my drawings surprised everybody with their similarity to rock drawings. My father started teaching me to ride a horse when I was six.  Every summer as a child our family would visit a Kazakh farm, where I would learn to ride and sketch horses.  We traded sugar, salt, flour, and tea with these nomadic people for accommodation and use of their horses.  I can depict a horse blindfolded now, and I draw horses whenever I need to feel as free as a horse on a prairie or a steppe. I’m attracted to a horse’s grace and beauty, shape and curve and think that horses will always be accompanying  my at my art journeys.