Mackenzie Silk is a sculptor and painter living in rural northeast Connecticut where she finds inspiration and works on a horse rescue and farm. Her equine friends have been the subject of many works, on paper as well as sculpturally. She has been an artist since childhood but it wasn’t until taking studio classes at Eastern Connecticut State University that she found her love for sculpture. With these horses as her larger than life inspiration, sculpture finally felt like the perfect way to capture their brilliant personalities and magnificent spirit. To create her life size horses she works primarily with welded steel, chicken wire, collected vines, twigs and other natural materials. Mackenzie first exhibited her sculptures at the 2025 Senior Show at Eastern Connecticut State University to display work made in her final year at the university. She most recently exhibited in shows at the Cape Cod Museum of Art, Lourdes Shrine Montfort Sculpture and at various art fairs and markets around New England, including the 2025 Art in the Park at Roseland Park where she won the People’s Choice Award for her innovative technique in sculpture. These community events have quickly become her favorite way to exhibit work, just to see the joy and inspiration that her sculptures bring to other people.

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