Featured Artists
APRIL 2024
Pat St.Onge
Artist's Statement
Pat likes to define her primary medium as "color". Working in acrylic, watercolor, and pastel, color is the key that unifies her work. She seeks to infuse vibrancy into her subjects by incorporating subtle colors that enrich and harmonize all elements. Recently she's enjoyed incorporating paint-pouring with brushwork. She finds it a delightful challenge to develop images from the random patterns created by the process.
Pat grew up in Ohio, and has 40 years of experience as a potter, tile designer, muralist, and digital illustrator. She's taught classes for adults and children at art leagues, art studios, galleries, and in private settings since the 1970's.
Pat learned the fundamentals of art at Cooper School of Art in Cleveland, OH, during the early 1970's. Pat earned her BFA from Quincy University in IL in 2002, and a MALS in Art History from Findlay University in OH in 2006. From 2008-2010 she studied print production and digital media at the Rhode Island School of Design. She's attended several workshops in watercolor and is a past member of the Great River Watercolor Society in IL.
She continues to help others discover the pleasure of painting when her opportunities for teaching expanded with a move to Fort Myers in 2016. Pat's paintings continue to garner awards in shows and are collected by clients across the globe.
The Interview
by Dee J. Stevenson
DEEDEE McGOVERN​
DeeDee is a very outgoing person who’s been coming to CCAL events as a member for 14 years when she first became interested in making art.
She has experienced her most success with cartoon characters, which she enjoys very much. Her most recent experience has been with animation. DeeDee considers her most significant contribution to CCAL as her drawing of a burrowing owl.
She states her current favorite venue is using colored pencils. She suggests the most productive way to handle negativity is by ‘staying positive’.