The award-winning artist and popular art instructor, Anne Hightower-Patterson explores unique places and people of Columbia. Hightower-Patterson paints the images in a photo-realist manner, but her choice of images and unconventional vantage points allow these paintings to depart from any clichéd expectation. 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 matters. Later, study of Winslow homer and John Singer Sargent has inspired her watercolors by their brilliance in color and design. 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 in their works that are personal and moving.
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