October 18, 2009

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My goal as an artist is to arrest nature’s motion, involving viewers as deeply as I can. As I make my artwork, I leave behind traces of feelings associated with my experience of each scene; sharing my vision of beauty and grace expressed through color and form.

The experiences of life that I find to be of greatest value are those that rest in the basic and seemingly simplistic. Garden fragrances, nature's color and form, all outweigh for me the more contrived and materialistic of our life today. I paint the landscapes, the feelings and the experiences that they create for me; the perceptions and sensations that collect as a result of a day at the shore, or under the shade of a live oak, or during weeks spent serving a residency at a National Park. If these sensations communicate with the viewer through my work, their connection and purpose are complete.

- Patricia Rottino Cummins

Monday

Oct192009

Monday, October 19, 2009 at 8:26PM

A great breakfast of bacon and eggs helps to send one off to a great day of painting. I painted the cottage from the rear. I met so many nice visitors interested in my work. The cottage painting is almost complete. I then worked at the pastel of the facade. There are picket fences all over the grounds here and they are not the easiest to paint. I took a walk on Main Street. They are filming a zombie movie called "Collapse" and it is interesting to see bloody people walking around perfectly fine.

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