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Painting the Feminine
Written By: Donna Rhodes | Issue: July 2023
Patty Calderone’s works are laden with subtle meaning. Her gallery is located in upper Dillard, a short drive from Scaly Mountain. You can also visit calderonegallery.com.
Patty Calderone is a visual raconteur who tells her tales from her soul’s core. Her stories splash volumes of emotion and majesty onto her canvases. In that strata, she incorporates images that are mystical, magical, real, or imagined. Her narratives encourage viewers to create their own chronicle based on what they see and feel. That’s one of the delightful aspects of Patty’s work … her images are mesmerizing and beautifully relatable.
After COVID and a shift in a business location, Patty longed to restore her art community. To pull her art buddies, students, and associates close, she is in the process of starting classes in her home studio. In addition, open gallery events are in the works throughout the season.
You may know Patty as a painter of wildlife, but in addition, The Feminine … intensely commands her attention. Its essence, its power, its connection to Mother Earth, and its necessary role in balancing the masculine. Along with that comes beauty, nurturing, intuition, humility, self-confidence, empathy, sensitivity, vulnerability, style, self-awareness, and kindness. All these characteristics coalesce in Patty’s allegoric paintings. Lately, she’s expanded her content, making it even richer and more multi-faceted. Patty says, “I am attempting to have my imagery become passionately seductive. I want it to draw you into its dreamlike qualities so the ambiguity plunges you into your subconscious, thus your true creative self.”
Studies in nature, history, culture, science, and myth are the structural columns supporting Patty’s work. This foundation provides a wide variety of images that connects the arts and our hearts to Mother Earth from which The Feminine flows.
Patty’s latest work features the Luna Moth. It arrives in the spring when the Earth warms. A full moon is compelling to the Luna from which its Greek name comes (goddess of the moon). Patty’s first sighting this year of a Luna moth in May coincided with the first blooming of clematis. That partnership is represented in her latest painting, a fusion of night and flight and purples, reds, and pinks.
Pat welcomes visitors and commission requests by calling (828) 787-1828 to schedule an appointment Her gallery is located in upper Dillard. A short drive from Scaly Mountain. www.calderonegallery.com.
