Contemporary Master

Gillian Gandossi

Vanguard Tier · Multi-disciplinary

Painting is more than just a passion for me. It is a journey of expression, connection, and beauty. The human spirit desires beauty - it helps us transcend. I make art for art’s sake, in an attempt to create beauty, solace, and a sense of belonging. As I look into this world or into myself, my head cannot stop creating multitudes of images that my heart and my hands want to put down on canvas - trying to capture the awe and wonder inside and out. My life course inadvertently uprooted me from my home and the new one could never quite replace it. Now, I feel without a home regardless of where I am, yearning to mend the rip. This propels me to create places that make me feel whole, places of memories, places of connectedness, or just situations that capture me in the present moment, no matter where I am. Often it is beautiful nature that will find its way onto my surfaces. Here I gravitate between contemporary impressionism, tonalism, and abstracted realism. I continue to strive for the craft of depicting the physical world as it appears to the eye but deviate from that more and more in order to attempt to capture the feeling of being immersed in a place in time, rather than its appearance. The results often culminate to serve as a meditative visual refuge.