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Cloud Nine<\/p><\/div>\n

By Gina Malone<\/p>\n

Sandra Bottinelli\u2019s parents are both artistic, though neither chose art as a career. Her mother is German and her father is Chilean. \u201cI always joke, but am slightly serious about it, that this genetic mixture is what caused me to jump back and forth between abstract and realism and then combine the two,\u201d Bottinelli says.<\/p>\n

Viewers often think her pieces are the work of multiple artists. \u201cWhen I paint, I want the piece to feel a certain way so that one piece might have heavy, fast strokes while another has soft, blended ones. I use different techniques depending on what I am trying to communicate. I love to paint like this because I am constantly learning new techniques and new ways to get an idea across.\u201d Among her influences are Van Gogh, Frida Kahlo, Caravaggio and William Blake.<\/p>\n

She began drawing at an early age and, with the support of her family and the encouragement of her teachers, officially began her professional art career in Portland, OR, after college. She first picked up a paintbrush when she was 21 and has been painting ever since, developing her own style along the way. \u201cPeople always say my work is so different across the board, but there is an underlying feeling that ties them all together.\u201d<\/p>\n

When she paints, she says, she is physically connected to nature. \u201cEverything is natural and that is how I paint it. Even a mechanical object is natural as it came from natural resources and if I were to paint a car, for example, it would feel more like nature and less like a machine.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Victorious<\/p><\/div>\n

A favorite subject since her young years has been animals. Though never around many animals growing up, she was attracted to them, she says, because of their coloring, anatomy and characteristics. \u201cThe different personalities that span across the animal kingdom are also interesting and seem to mimic those of the human race.\u201d In her earlier work, she would often paint animals into human situations. \u201cMoving forward, I began to put animals into atypical environments like space and abstract landscapes.\u201d One of her paintings, a Texas longhorn with roses, \u201cjust popped into my head and stuck there so I knew it was my next painting.\u201d<\/p>\n

More recently, she has begun to paint human figures. \u201cMy work is always evolving and hard to pin down.\u201d Her completely abstract pieces, she says, are not planned, but rather evolve out of emotions as she paints. \u201cI never know what they are going to look like when I start them.\u201d<\/p>\n

Another idea that inspires her is the concept that everything is real and abstract at the same time. \u201cIf you zoom into something closely, it can become abstract and if you zoom in further, it can become realism again. It is the idea of structure in chaos and vice versa.\u201d She plays with the idea in some of her larger pieces. \u201cThis co-existence of realism and abstraction to me is the natural world.\u201d She paints large pieces, some of them 48\u201d x 72\u201d, two or three times a year. She works in oils on canvas or wood panels.<\/p>\n

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Sandra Bottinelli<\/p><\/div>\n

One of her favorite aspects of being an artist is meeting people and talking about her work. \u201cI love to hear what other people see and feel in the work. I would say that my favorite things are the act of creating and then watching people enjoy\u2014and even not enjoy\u2014my work. It\u2019s not for everyone!\u201d<\/p>\n

With the acquisition through the years of techniques has come an ease of expression. \u201cWhen I have the knowledge of how to put something down, then I don\u2019t have to think about it anymore and I can allow more easily for nature to take over. This is a wonderful place to be and is what I would call my \u2018zone.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Bottinelli Fine Art has two locations: downtown Asheville at 56 South Lexington Avenue, #105, behind the Aloft Hotel, and in the River Arts District at Wedge Studios\u2019 whiteSPACE, 129 Roberts Street, #2B7. To learn more, visit sandrabottinelli.com<\/a> or call 828.329.4785. Find her on Instagram @bottinelli_fine_art and on Facebook (Bottinelli Fine Art).<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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