Artist
Peggy Silverstein is a third‑generation artist dedicated to art and education. Her grandmother, Rose Braunstein Wachpress, graduated from Cooper Union in 1915 and later studied engineering during World War II. Her mother taught painting at Florida Southern College, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. Peggy earned a Master’s in Art Therapy from Pratt Institute and has continued studying throughout her life: graduate stone carving at Columbia, master carving with Chaim Gross, painting workshops with Everett Raymond Kinstler, Wolf Kahn, and Bert Silverman, eighteen years as a docent at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and ongoing classes at the Art Students League of New York.
She has exhibited in Nantucket and New York City. A love of horses began while riding on Long Island; she paints and sculpts them in many materials. At the Art Students League she moved into metalwork, welding steel after first making a copper horse from plumbing pipe, refrigeration coil, real horse hair, and glass eyes.
In 2020 Peggy founded Lighthorse Design, which uses welding and 3D scanning with traditional lost‑wax casting to make bronze and stainless‑steel horse‑head sconces, chandeliers, pendants, lamps, and custom equine lighting. Expanding into reproduction and technical design lets engineering and form‑driven design produce practical, beautiful pieces for horse lovers.