Born and raised in Richfield, Utah, Phyllis Forsey Horne grew up with original paintings in her family home. She was fully grown before she realized that they had helped foster her love of art.

Phyllis began her formal art training at Brigham Young University. She next made the bold move of taking the train to New York City where she enrolled in illustration courses at the Fashion Academy. Later, while raising her six children in California and Utah, she enrolled in numerous evening courses, completed the Famous Artist’s Correspondence Course, and actively involved herself in “every art class and workshop available.”

Her work now hangs in numerous private and public collections, including the Utah State Art Collection at the Governor’s Mansion, the Salt Lake County Collection, Kennecott Copper, St. Mark’s Hospital and the Springville Museum. She has won many top state and national awards including “Best of Show” and “First Place” at the Utah State Fair, and first place state and national award in the Gertrude Fogelson Mother of the Year Competition. She is a charter and signature member of the Utah Watercolor Society. She has exhibited actively on the local scene, including several years at the Utah “Days of 47” Invitational. In 2002, her work was featured in the Springville Museum’s Cultural Olympiad show.

Phyllis was recently honored to be elected one of one hundred “Most Honored Artists of Utah.” Phyllis is known for her dramatic handling of light and her evocative painting of trees and gardens.