The art of Sandy Horton will be featured in an exhibit at Radford’s Glencoe Museum Feb. 18 - April 11.

Originally from Lynchburg, Horton graduated from Lynchburg College with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree and later from New River Community College with an Associates’ Degree in Computer Programming. When she is not in front of her easel, she works as a programmer/analyst for Moog Components Group in Blacksburg. She presently resides in Radford with her husband David and their dog Bandit.

This event marks Horton’s first solo show in Radford. She has exhibited in solo shows in Blacksburg at the CODA gallery in 2009 and at the Fine Arts Center for the New River Valley in 2008. Her regional shows have included the Lynchburg’s annual Kaleidoscope Festival and she has also exhibited works at Art Pannonia in Blacksburg.

Horton’s artwork has been called mischievous, mesmerizing, and magical. From simple doodles to complex cubism, Horton has always been interested in shapes, forms, textures, and colors.  As a child, she loved to draw and to make paper cutouts, a pastime which blossomed and evolved into her current style.

Sandy’s inspirations range from celestial bodies to the mundane. The power of the sun is a common subject for Sandy, and one that she has interpreted in several different styles, but her most popular works have been of the bovine variety. Red cows, pigmented for no other reason than a fondness for the shade, are far and away the favorites of those who have viewed her work.