Anna Ruby Whitmire
Contemporary Equine Artist
Faithful and True, oil and acrylic on canvas, 42" x 60", 2025
Star Gate, oil and acrylic on canvas, 36" x 36", 2025
The Welcomers, oil and acrylic on canvas, 8" x 8", 2024, Sold
The Familiars, oil and acrylic on canvas, 8" x 8", 2024, Sold
High Road, acrylic and pencil on paper, 8" x 8", 2024, Sold
Early To Rise, oil and acrylic on canvas, 24" x 36", 2024, Sold
Square One, acrylic and pencil on paper, 8" x 8", 2024, Sold
Somewhere Past, acrylic, pencil, and ink on paper, 15" x 30", 2024
Continue Straight, oil and acrylic on canvas, 16" x 20", 2025
Hyperspace, oil and acrylic on canvas, 48" x 32", 2025
Hoofstep Odyssey
This series of oil and acrylic paintings explores how horses interact with a structured world that was built by them, not for them. As masters of awareness, horses teach us humans to reconnect with ourselves and the world in a more authentic way. The equine subject's journey through dreamy sky scapes and otherworldly structures illustrates this noble quest of presence and connection.
Air Field
This series of drawings and paintings, installed with flight paths in string and handmade paper airplanes, is the result of four months of experimental studio practice combining the visual worlds of horsemanship and aviation.
Intriguing conceptual parallels between riding and flying began to emerge, highlighting the fascinating ability of horses and aircraft to make us aware of forces our own senses cannot pick up on. By piloting a horse or an airplane, our eyes can be opened.Currently on view at Arts Warehouse, in Delray, Florida through November 28
Look Outside, watercolor and colored pencil on cut paper, 24” x 36”, 2026
Instrument Approach, watercolor, acrylic, colored pencil, and ink on cut paper, 12” x 16”, 2026
Jets Way, acrylic, alcohol marker, and pencil on cut paper, 16” x 20”, 2026
Noble, watercolor, acrylic, and colored pencil on cut paper, 24” x 36”, 2026
Heads Up, watercolor and colored pencil on cut paper, 7” x 12”, 2026
Fix Your Attitude, acrylic, ink and pencil on cut paper, 9” x 6”, 2026
Jet Ways
This series of layered drawings and paintings explores intriguing conceptual parallels between the worlds of horsemanship and aviation.
The equine subject is combined with flight paths traced in real time, then cut into the paper and filled in with color.
In a fast-paced, structured, and demanding world, what place still remains for the sensitive, intuitive horse?
About
Anna Ruby Whitmire is an equine artist, horsewoman, and educator born in Nags Head, North Carolina and raised in Greenville, South Carolina.By combining equine subjects with visuals from the realms of architecture, cartography, and aviation, her paintings and drawings explore the relationship between horses, humans, and the fast-moving landscapes of today. Her work has been exhibited at the Bascom Gallery, the Milliken Gallery of Converse University, and Biafarin Online, and published in Clover & Bee Magazine, Artistonish Magazine, and Horse Country Quarterly.She received a BA in Art Education from Converse University in 2025, and is currently pursuing an MFA in Visual Art at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, Florida.
Boca Raton, Florida
Greenville, South Carolina