Jayne Odell

Newmarket is bursting with talent this week and not just of the four-legged variety. Visitors to the town for the sales and racing can also take advantage of the art scene with a stunning new exhibition of the Society of Equestrian Artists (SEA) having just opened in the National Horseracing Museum. Celebrating the 40th anniversary of the SEA, 'We Give You The Horse' runs until May 21 and comprises the work of more than 40 leading members of the society with some familiar names among them.  Plenty of people in...

It could be a little daunting for a modern-day artist to follow Sir Alfred Munnings in the exhibition space of Newmarket's National Horseracing Museum. Munnings is an iconic name in the sporting art world, and many of his best known images of racehorses at the start were created from his makeshift studio in an old rubbing house on Newmarket Heath which exists to this day. He lived and breathed his subject, but so too does the photographer Jayne Odell FRPS, whose striking black and white images are exhibited in the...