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The Angels in Her Garden
Issue: 2021/08 – August
A deep dive into French culture and its rich aesthetic sensibilities has given Patty Calderone’s works an undeniable esprit.
Patty Calderone is synonymous with Fine Art in Highlands
She has lived and created art here for nearly 30 years.
In 2017 Patty made a life-changing trip to France. She says, “The French world held me spellbound. I was mesmerized by the architecture, decorative details, daily life, fashion, and style variety, ancient to contemporary. Taking inspiration from the French aesthetic made me want to stretch. I visited many museums but favored the Musee d’Orsay. I fell in love with Francoise de Felice, a figurative artist whose work I found in Galerie Calderone (no relation) in Northern France. My French experience had a profound influence on my process. It was not only the art that influenced me but also the lush countryside, gardens, and meadows. There were flowers everywhere. And they were very wild and free as if they had been planted by angels so many centuries ago.”
“Many of those influences related to the way figures are perceived and adorned in France. their dress is not trendy or vogue but imaginative and unique. Visually on the streets, instead of one dominant figure, several images interact as if staged. Others distanced to create intriguing negative space. Imaginative costuming, surfaces turned into transparent washes and colors, the introduction of animals, and textural surfaces like canvas grain peeking through all contributed to a more complex way of imagining composition. That is what I experienced there, and it is what I am striving to achieve.” Patty is sharing these first paintings that came out of that trip to France and started after her return in August 2017, not publicly seen before.
“Les anges de mon jardin,” a three-piece 90”x30“ triptych pictured to left is available at Calderone Gallery at 3608 Highway 246 in Dillard, Georgia. Patty can be reached by calling (828) 371-0376.
