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Artist Lisa Marie Bishop competes in the exacting sport of dressage, but at the easel she paints outside traditional lines. By LAUR A LEMON Artwork Courtesy of
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COLIN BISHOP PHOTO
LISA MAR IE BISHOP
As is her habit, Lisa Marie Bishop woke up on this particular May morning in the sleepy hour between 3 and 4 a.m. and got to work in her home art studio in Iowa City, Iowa. She turned her Pandora Internet radio on to the Hook movie soundtrack. She’d been studying
international dressage rider Carl Hester’s training and show rides, and she could no longer ignore the inspiration she felt when she watched him and his longtime mount, the Olympic gold medal winner Uthopia.
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Artist Lisa Marie Bishop, shown here with Dr. Suzanne Cassel’s and Dr. Fayyaz Sutterwala’s 6-year-old Dutch Warmblood Exelant, has enjoyed success with her riding and her art despite having Stargardt disease, a condition that causes progressive vision loss.