www.nightdiamondarabians.com
Julie Nestor is married to her husband, Dan. They live with three children on a horse farm call Night Diamond
Arabians in the small town of Brooks, Ga. She was raised in Texas which highly influenced her love for equine
portraiture and western art. Alter military life in California, the family moved to Florida. She studied under
Dorothy Mortensen, a pastel portrait artist in a lakefront art studio. Julie soon accepted several commissions
for horses and animals. Arabian horses are her passion. Through their eyes, she wants the viewer to see their
character, intelligence, and emotion individual to each horse. An Arabic man once wrote, "The expression in a
horse's eye is like a blessing in a good man's house." Julie wants not only to preserve the Egyptian Arabian
bloodlines in her horse breeding program, but also to preserve them on her canvas as well. Her favorite artists
are Robert Bateman, a realist wildlife painter, and Charles Russell, a western artist.
Julie is currently studying oil portraiture under the instruction of the well known portrait artist, Mrs.
Helen Hayes, in Newnan, Ga. Julie is currently serving as the vice-president and show chairperson for Fayette
Society of Fine Art (FSOFA) under SCAVA, and a member of the Fayette Art Center,. Julie's work has been shown
at the Gulf Breeze Zoo, the J. Patti Art Gallery, Fayetteville Train Depot, FSOFA shows at the Fayette Montessori
School and The Courthouse Show, Barnes and Noble coffee shop, the Riverdale Senior Center, Clayton Performing
Arts Center, and The Arts Clayton Gallery in Jonesboro. Julie has primarily worked in graphite, pastel, and oil
painting. She has received first place awards in oil and pastel. Her work can be seen on
www.nightdiamondarabians.com under art.
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