 Pat's portrait of Secretariat with the Hartford Insurance executive who wrote the Triple Crown winner's policy. |
Pat "DeVore" Wyatt's protraits are the expression of her finely tuned innate ability to capture the essence and dynamic attributes of things great and small in each of her oil paintings. Her finished pieces of individuals or even pets present her subjects as true personalities.
It is this special trait along with the detail in her paintings that make each work an entity unto itself.This talent also expresses itself in her hobby, breeding of the beautiful Morgan horse, with 3 World Champions to her credit and another in training.
 Pat Wyatt driving her third world champion, Fox Ridge Celebrity. |
S he is able to capture her subjects on canvas so that they have a genuine life-like presence. It is this extraordinary talent that gives her paintings their place in museums and private collections in six countries. Pat has also had some of her portraits of horses and their owners placed on the covers of national equine magazines.
Her third world champion, Fox Ridge Celebrity, retired in 1996 at 12 years old and now has an offspring, a 2-year-old filly named Fox Ridge Center Stage, who is already well on the way down her own championship trail. She won the 1999 Champion 2-year-old Pleasure Driving Morgan Horse Championship in May at the Southern States Morgan Horse Show at the Hunt Horse Complex in Raleigh, NC, and is showing in other states in readiness for the Grand Championship.
Pat has continued to paint and has 13 paintings of Morgan horses in the Morgan Horse Museum in Shelburn, Vermont, known as the "Morgan Horse Hall of Fame."
She is primarily a portrait painter, depicting people with their horses, dogs, cats and other pets. She also does family portraits.
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