Sandra | Inside the DeSano Studio: Providence Art Club, Open Artist Studios
This is my studio that I typically work in but today we’re hosting an open studio event because we wanted to share our local artwork with the community. We’ve just invited people in, opened the door, and are having some great fun, really connecting with everyone and meeting people, meeting lots of artists and collectors as well.
I paint the New England landscape and I spend a lot of time outdoors in New England. I don’t typically use photographs for my reference. I will just connect with a scene, come back here, and paint it from memory. So it’s more about the emotional experience than it is about the specific scene.
I don’t really have one specific favorite painting, but some do speak to me more than others. I’m enthralled by the dynamic weather system that is just unique to the White Mountains. This painting really spoke to me when I was working on it because it shows the turmoil of the diverse weather that you get in the area. It just sits right over Mount Washington and it can be pretty scary. And most times I’m happy that I’m observing it from the ground level, not at the summit.
But there are people that actually hike that mountain in the middle of the winter and experience the trauma in the sky that you see in the painting, firsthand from the summit. Brave people.
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