Polo Art The 2019 Polo Season Art And Photos By Melinda Brewer Sealed New! Annually immortalizing some of the most memorable polo ponies to play the game, professional painter Melinda Brewer has completed over 200 commissioned polo portraits to date, commemorating both inductees to the Hall of Fame and high-goal Best Playing Ponies. Establishing a career as a wildlife painter after graduating college with a fine arts degree in 1982, a decade later Brewer shifted her focus to the untapped market of polo, assuming the important role of chronicling the sport’s champions for posterity. Living and working out of her studio just outside Montreal in Quebec, Canada, this Canadian artist has traveled to South Florida every winter for the high-goal season since the mid 1990s and across North America to capture the images and stories of polo’s top equine athletes. Although herself not a polo player, Brewer’s love for the polo horse emanates through her thoughtful portraiture, lining the walls of the Museum of Polo and Hall of Fame in Lake Worth, Florida, the International Polo Club Palm Beach (Wellington, Florida) and numerous other clubs which house her exhibitions. Taking her growing collection of watercolor paintings a step further, Brewer compiled the first edition of Polostars in 2004, a beautiful annual souvenir publication highlighting some of the past year’s Best Playing Ponies through fine art portraits, photography and historical documentation. A project birthed with the idea of bringing greater recognition and distinction to polo ponies playing in North America, the book is envisioned to broaden in scope, including Best Playing Ponies representing lower goal levels. The USPA caught up with Brewer to discuss the techniques behind her realistic representations and the greater purpose behind the future direction of Polostars.