"I strive to make each portrait as unique as the individual animal," says artist Jocelyn Sandor. "It is important for me to capture the special look and personality of each animal in a fine and well-considered drawing." This artistic sensitivity, evolved through the years of fine art training and exposure to animals, is what characterizes Sandor’s portraits.

Of particular interest to Sandor are horses. After many years of riding, training, and study, her knowledge of equine anatomy and movement is extensive. This knowledge, when combined with her sound drawing background and talent as a fine artist, enables her to express her equine subjects in elegant, accurate, and sensitive drawings. "For as long as I can remember I have practiced drawing horses. When I wasn’t riding them, I was drawing them." Working from photographs, each portrait begins as an accurately detailed pencil drawing. To complete the portrait, Sandor uses one of the world’s oldest and most permanent drawing mediums known as Conté Crayon. These had French chalks date back to Michelangelo and Rembrandt and are rich in brilliant earth-tone colors, which are essential for expressing the colors of animals.

Jocelyn Sandor received her formal art training at Skidmore College, where she earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Fine Art, and at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, where she earned a Master of Fine Arts degree in printmaking. Following a graduate fellowship in Sweden, she devoted her energies to creating a body of work based on the refinement of her nationally recognized landscape woodcut prints and her fine animal portraits.

Presently Sandor has completed more than one thousand commissioned portraits. Complementing her private commissions have been numerous feature opportunities. In 1990 her work was featured on the poster and program cover of the Washington International Horse Show and in the fall of 1992 an article devoted to Sandor and her work appeared in Equine Images. Sandor’s portrait of "Groton Cup," a former racehorse and living exhibit at the Kentucky Derby Museum in Louisville, was commissioned by the museum and is now a part of it’s permanent collection. Additionally, Sandor’s works have been featured on numerous occasions on the covers of The Chronicle of the Horse and The Equine Marketer.