About Fine Art Editions Gallery & Press
Fine Art Editions Gallery and Press is located in the heart of historic Georgetown, Kentucky at 146 East Main Street. We are located just 3 miles north of the Kentucky Horse Park.
Fine Art Editions is a complete publishing and printmaking house, art gallery, and custom frame shop. This is the studio of artist John Stephen Hockensmith. Hockensmith is known around the world as an equine photographer, for his artistic skill as a printmaker, an author and businessman.
We produce museum quality (matched-color) pigmented prints (commonly known as Giclee’). Our staff and other services provide custom framing for collectors and clients; we also represent several artists’ portfolios. We maintain an art gallery presence for artistic presentations and gallery exhibitions.
Hockensmith is also available for assignment world-wide. Hockensmith’s book Gypsy Horses and the Travelers’ Way was released in 2006 and received critical acclaim nationally. Oklahoma University Press will be distributing both the Gypsy Horse Book and his new book Spanish Mustangs in the Great American West world-wide. The Spanish Mustang Book will be available here in June 2009.
Hockensmith Photographics Inc. has historically been a regional commercial and portrait photography studio, our regional photographer uses the same facilities to provide high standard to all photographic assignments large and small. Please peruse our new website and make the journey to our historic hometown.
NEWS & MEDIA
Spanish Mustangs in the Great American West
Spanish Mustangs is an unprecedented artistic and historical tribute to the horses that helped colonize the New World and whose blood still pumps in descendants that have been carefully conserved. In vivid photography and vibrant prose, this work captures the essence of their spirit, from the time they arrived in the dark holds of small boats five centuries ago through generations that have roamed plains and mountain ranges.
Gypsy Horses and the Travelers' Way
From tales told by the light of stick fires to the drumbeat of hooves across foggy moors, the new book Gypsy Horses and the Travelers’ Way unveils the mystery and magic embraced by the Romani Gypsies of northern England.
Spanish Mustangs in the Great American West
John S. Hockensmith's celebration of the Spanish Mustang takes us on a moving odyssey from the Old World to the mustang's role in the American West. The attraction between the horse and the human spirit is inescapably grounded in the horse's beauty, speed and mysterious elusiveness, qualities that through millennia have given rise to its perceived magical and supernatural powers. Through time immemorial, artists have been inspired to capture these esteemed characteristics worthy of veneration. Hockensmith's stunning photographs, resonating with the first painted renderings of the wild horse, join this legacy and are testimony to the enduring essence of the equine spirit.
Polly Schaafsma, research associate with the Museum of Indian Art and Culture, Santa Fé, New Mexico, renowned archaeologist and author of several books, including Indian Rock Art of the Southwest