Horse girl, Artist.
Caitlin Rantala is an expressionist painter, who explores girlhood, resilience, and authenticity through the lens of equine art. She creates colorful, bright oil paintings that weave emotion and narrative through color and subject matter.
Inspiration Behind the Art
Horses are mirrors. If you want to meet the most authentic version of yourself, hang out with one for an hour. They’ll reflect your intentions, honor your honesty, and call your bluff. If you listen carefully, these animals ask: “Are you brave enough to sit with what you feel and do have the courage to work through it?”
When we are brave enough to sit with our emotions in their entirety, we find permission to explore our identities fully and in earnest. Then, and only then, can we be honest with ourselves and with those around us. I invite you to explore your humanity in its fullest–joy, strength, fear, anger, shame, hope. What is it about you that keeps the motion moving forward? Can you explore the parts of you that feel unnerving? That feel like too much? Or not enough? Are you policing yourself from joy over the sake of pleasing others? Do you zip up your anger into body bags because it didn’t obey?
Can you work with those emotions without breaking your own spirit? I hope you have the audacity to try.
Join My Horse Girl Art Club!
For $8/mo., members receive one 5x7” print and one 2” vinyl sticker sent via snail mail! Members can also catch up and purchase past prints they’ve missed. Orders are mailed on the 10th of each month and you can cancel anytime.
Prints Available
Want a smaller version of your favorite piece?
Giclée prints start at $22.99!
Shop Originals
Transform your space with a some horse girl magic. Invest in an original before its sold out!
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![A painting of a bedroom with a yellow headboard, light blue walls, a canopy over the bed, and a horse lying on the bed. There is a small side table with objects, a book, and a box on the wooden floor.]()
“The prints are SO gorgeous, OMG! The paper and colors are stupendous, the paper feels luxurious, almost like velvet. Amazing job. You’re incredible.”
– Elizabeth M.
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![A colorful painting of a horse with a pink flower lei around its neck, set against a green background.]()
"You’re my favorite artist...I want to live in your paintings."
– Anna Z.
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![Three colorful horses with flowing manes and tails are depicted flying through a pastel sky with clouds, creating a surreal scene.]()
"So stunning! I bought a print of the horses running in the clouds, can’t wait to frame it and hang it."
– Loryn C.
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![Two horses with brown coats and black manes, one wearing pink sunglasses, facing each other, surrounded by various items including medicine bottles, a broken heart necklace, a pen, and a small mustered cat, all against a multicolored background.]()
"Your work sets my brain on fire."
– Matt F.
