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

Studio:

240 North Krome Ave.

Studio 7

Homestead, FL 33030


Phone:

305-310-5440

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October 19, 2009

Today I discovered that there is an unlocked wireless network  within range,  and I was able to upload my journal.  I hope I can continue this all week.  There was a kind  employee at the  Presidential Library that actually hand delivered their password to me but i could not get it to work.  So this evening's discovery is terrific. I will post some pictures into a gallery and this will be very productive this residency.  Some parks do not even have cell phone coverage so this is great.  I have been uploading images to facebook , but this is even better.

So today I completed the oil of the cottage backdoor, and went to the prairie and painted.  The weather was the best!  It was about 65 degrees.  Ricardo called and I was the happiest today.   Good feelings and good painting. 

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