Kay Witherspoon is one of the world’s most renowned polo and equine oil painters yet is also a highly collected landscape and wildlife artist.”  She has collected top awards in major exhibitions and the Top 2020 & 2022 Awards for her studio business in Englewood, Colorado.  Kay Witherspoon was elected to the status of “Signature Artist” by three top tier artists organizations: 1) The Society of Animal Artists, 2) The American Academy of Equine Art, and 3) Artists for Conservation and is thus among the ranks of award winning artists who “are well established in their careers, have achieved exceptional merit, and have been featured in leading art publications”.  

Witherspoon has since retired from these organizations in order to pursue landscape, figure and portraiture painting and her memberships in Art Renewal Center (ARC – https://artrenewal.org/), the International Guild of Realism (IGOR – https://www.realismguild.com/); and American Artists Professional League (AAPL – https://aaplinc.org/).

Kay Witherspoon has also been identified as “One of the premier equine painters in America” (Coast Magazine, SC) as well as painter of  “… some of the best horses I’ve ever seen painted” , Robert Bateman, credited by art historian and curator, David Wagner, PhD, as ” … the most influential wildlife painter of all time” ).