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Award-winning artist and popular art instructor, Anne
Hightower-Patterson, uses art as an outlet to explore the unique places and people of
Columbia. Hightower-Patterson paints in a
photo-realist manner, but her choice of images and
unconventional vantage points allow these paintings to depart
from any clichéd expectation.
Raised
in Mt. Pleasant, SC, Anne began painting when she was twelve
years old under the instruction of the famous South Carolina
watercolorist, Virginia Fouche Bolton.
After six years of study with Bolton, she attended the
University of South Carolina where she earned a Bachelor of
Fine Arts Degree in Studio Art. The elements that seem to
influence Hightower-Patterson’s work more that any other are
the play of light and color across the surface of the subject
matter.
Close
study of classic painters has brought much influence to the
work of Anne Hightower-Patterson.
The figures of Degas and the watercolors of Wyeth were
early inspirations in her paintings.
Even today, images of these painters guide her choices
of subject matter. Currently,
her study of the brilliance in color and design utilized by Winslow
Homer and John Singer Sargent has inspired
her watercolors. The most contemporary paintings that have moved her are
the works of Stephen Scott Young and Carolyn Brady.
Their use of light and color make powerful statements that are personal and moving.
Artist's
Statement “My work is influenced greatly by my life
experiences, my life long home in South Carolina, and the
people who have passed through my life."
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