About

Kate Mieczkowska

BHS Qualified · RoR Registered Retrainer · MA Fine Art, Chelsea College of Art, UAL

Photo: Riyaz

In her own words

"I love horses. I started riding at eighteen months old and at every opportunity in my life I have been around them or working with them."

Each new horse I meet teaches me something, and I love to see them thriving and enjoying their lives alongside people. It is a privilege to do what I do.

There are core principles I have learned — from horses, and from the very good people I have had the fortune to work with — that let me offer what I can today.

What is genuinely unusual about Outwith Horses is the combination: formal equestrian training and qualification alongside a fine art education from Winchester and Chelsea. There is nowhere else that brings these two things together in this way.

The approach

Slow everything down.

When a horse arrives, the first task is to let it just be a horse. Herd company, turnout, grazing, movement. Some horses are outgoing and need robust young company; others, perhaps through injury or personality, need a quieter friend alongside them. The herd system allows each horse to decompress at its own pace.

Ground work follows — long reins, polework, the woods, hill work, desensitisation exercises, in-hand introduction to cross-country fences. These build strength and confidence before ridden work begins.

Kindness, handling and nutrition are the foundation. Owners receive regular updates on progress and ongoing support. The conversation doesn't end when the horse goes home.

Qualifications & recognition

Credentials that matter.

Equestrian

BHS qualified — equine training and management
RoR registered retrainer of racehorses
RoR Retrainer Approval Scheme — application in progress
Trained in classical dressage, polo, backing and reschooling
Horses retrained for dressage, showjumping, eventing, polo and hacking
Six thoroughbreds retrained for low-goal polo; two successful in RoR Polo classes; one gone to professional career in Austria

Fine Art

BA Fine Art — Winchester School of Art
MA Fine Art — Chelsea College of Art, UAL
Associate Artist — Chapel Arts Studios
Exhibiting — Royal Academy
Exhibiting internationally — Global South

Community

Trustee — Test Valley Arts Foundation
NHS Social Prescribing — Andover PCN
Curator — New British Rural (Editions I and II)

Fine art practice

Beyond the yard.

Kate's personal fine art practice — figurative work and sculpture — is separate from Outwith Horses and maintained under her own name. It is the same artistic intelligence that underpins Painting on the Hoof.

Kate is a trustee of the Test Valley Arts Foundation and curator of New British Rural, a community pop-up gallery bringing together art, farming and rural life in working farm settings.

katemieczkowska.com ↗

Kate Mieczkowska — pastel and charcoal horse study

Kate Mieczkowska — charcoal horse in motion

Kate Mieczkowska — works on paper

Get in touch

Tell us about your horse.

Whether you are a trainer with a horse leaving racing, or an owner with an OTTB in need of time and skilled support — the conversation starts with a phone call or an email.

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