Patricia Dalesandro
Painter
Patricia is a native Chicagoan who is now a proud Northwest settler. She studied art at the American Academy of Art in Chicago, and after graduation went on to a career as an Art Director. She’s still working in the ad industry, but in the last several years she’s been exploring painting again, and has found joy in rediscovering art.
Patricia’s current work is exploring emotion through the lens of nature. Nature can really capture all our moods: joy, anger, love and exuberance. The process begins with exploring and hiking locally; sketching and taking photos, and seeing what feelings might arise. Then the process moves to the studio for more sketching to refine the composition and the light and shadow, painting and then painting some more.
In the last several years, Patricia has shown her work at
Cafe Senso in Seattle and at local art walks on Bainbridge Island and Poulsbo. She has been a juror for the Bainbridge Island Studio Tour and was chosen to have her artwork featured at the BPA (Bainbridge Performing Arts) for a 2019 First Friday Art Walk.
She was also part of a group show Autumn Surprises at the Island Gallery, where she had two of her larger watercolors on display for the month of October, 2018. She took a break from showing work for the past few years and has created new work and some limited-edition archival prints. She recently hosted a First Friday
Painter
Native to the Pacific Northwest, Erica Nordean is an internationally known painter recognized for her stunning depictions of horses and horse racing, as well as haunting landscapes and vibrant still life.
She began exercising racehorses at Long Acres, in Renton, Washington, while attending school. Working with horses throughout Washington, Erica was a fixture at such lauded locales as Long Acres, Yakima Meadows, and Emerald Downs, where she was an exercise rider for various stables.
Primarily self-taught, Erica has studied a variety of artistic styles. She says, “I found out that drawing came so naturally.” In her mid-thirties Erica embarked on her career as a professional artist and never looked back.
Erica Nordean’s art career took off when she began showing at Kirkland’s Gambados Gallery, where her paintings were enthusiastically received. With a powerful national presence in the national horse racing world, Erica’s paintings have shown at the prestigious Del Mar Thoroughbred Club where she was the 2010 featured program artist. Erica’s art hangs in galleries from Seattle, Washington to Saratoga Springs, New York. In California, her work has been shown at Santa Anita, Hollywood Park, Del Mar, and Bay Meadows racetracks.
“In a world of literal-minded racing painters and patrons, Erica Nordean is one who dares to flirt with the abstract. Her horses are unmistakably horses, but they have a vibrant, native feel…” – Columnist Jay Hovedy, Daily Racing Form
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