ANNA MASTRONARDI NOVAK - new & gathered works

Anna Mastronardi Novak works in both oil painting and multi-layered color pencil drawings depicting her native Italian landscapes and vistas, as well as imagery from around her home on Whidbey Island and the Northwest. Using a soft focus and often muted color palate her works are at once traditional in subject and contemporary and relatable.

Anna’s perspective and sensibility are deeply driven by compelling personal and life experience, inspiring her to a life dedicated and focused on creating art. Her work embraces and celebrates the universality and simplicity of nature and simple beauty.

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Inspiration

The impact of exceptional circumstances in her youth and the immigrant experience, contributed to the wellspring that imbues the authenticity of her art.

Living the first eight years of her life in a children’s hospital in Italy, compelled in her a determination to express herself through art at a very young age. Her solace from the often difficult institutional environment, was drawing and painting.

An instinctive ability and partiality to express herself through visual art carried her through being later uprooted from the Italian countryside and emigrating to America.

The Move to America

Emigrating with her family to the stark blue collar Mid-West of the late 1960s, she found her art empowered her to negotiate cultural differences and bridge her inability to speak English.

Drawn by the natural beauty and cultural inclusiveness of America’s West, she moved to Seattle in 1978 to continue her art education and development of her work.

Anna has been featured nationally in group and solo gallery and museum exhibits for over 40 years. She is a strong supporter of the arts community and proponent of youth art education. The expression of her vision is unburdened by a solitary medium or belief in obligation to a singular technique. This embracive approach in her works and intimacy with multiple techniques, has evolved over decades. Her art is expressed through the mediums of encaustic, oils, mixed-media, and pigment pencil works.

If you have questions about Anna's currently available work,
please contact the gallery at 360-222-3070 or 800-858-5063.