Concetta K. Antico - Artist Statement

“I just drink in all the gifts of earth’s beauty every day and think, what an artist God is! But it is inexplicable until I paint it.

My subjects find me. Their beauty "speaks" to me and moves me profoundly. It is this conversation of the heart that remains on my canvas forever…

Balboa Park Painting

Luminous beauty is fleeting. Fugitive light tarries with me then steals beauty away ~ my enemy is Time. So, I paint with a sense of urgency. I only have moments to capture beauty and preserve it. Why a sky can open and close while I watch in amazement and helplessness at its brevity. It is only through my painting that I can transcend transient beauty in nature. Only then can I share all that is breathtaking. Anticipating that at some later time, others may know upon seeing my work, how magical it all was. Even beyond when my time has past.

Art embodies every part of my life. I live it… I even live in it! Those who visit my home know an artist lives here. For me it’s all things bright and beautiful. Light and nature ~ simple joy and family fill my world. These express me and they explain me. Why I tell others, my greatest creations are my children, my children tell me they’re my art. I bow to both.

Living with your passion everyday makes life blissful as you anticipate the joy of the next day, and the next, just so you can do “it “ all over again. Because of this, painting has made, saved and continues to inspire my life. "My wish is to do the same for others, for you." Please view my work and enjoy a beautiful moment in time, captured for you on my canvas.”

Concetta K. Antico

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