Claire Goldrick

Oil painting captured Claire’s focus long before her teen years. Then, throughout high school she painted commissioned portraits of her classmates for their parents and earned money to pay the board bill on her horse. Horses, dogs and other animals were the subject matter of numerous other commissioned paintings as well. “I knew I wanted an art career when I visited galleries in Santa Fe and Taos as a child, and I found my fulfillment at an early age creating art.”

Claire was born in Washington D.C. in 1944 and grew up in Albuquerque, New Mexico after her family moved west. She later studied informally with friends Wilson Hurley and Arthur Sussman while still in Albuquerque. Then, in 1989 she took a workshop from Roy Andersen. Having spent time riding horseback on friends’ ranches in New Mexico and Colorado, Claire gravitated naturally to western subject matter and landscapes. She continues to exhibit her work in numerous shows throughout the U.S. and is represented by the Ponderosa Art Gallery in Hamilton, Montana, Horizon Fine Art in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, the Toh-atin Gallery in Durango, Colorado and Fredericksburg Art Gallery in Fredericksburg, Texas.

Claire has been featured in Southwest Art Magazine, Art of the West Magazine, Equine Images Magazine and in the Appaloosa Journal.