The Female Eye: Spotlight on Anita Mazzucca

Anita Mazzucca, The Farm On Tennent Road, Oil on Canvas, 30” x 48”

Often landscape is something we travel through to get from one point in our lives to another. But pass a location at just the right time of day and something draws you in. Trees that were grey at noontime in March turn golden in the evening in July. Nature has an energy that searches for light and space. It has a delicacy and beauty where weeds and leaves can look like lace.

It is not hard to argue that we are careless with the environment. But painting the world as a statement of what it is becoming would be controversial, and not very productive. Instead, I paint landscapes that extol the beauty of the common and the glorious. I try to express that moment or glance that takes your breath away. Perhaps that is an image of nature that can persuade.