Valerie Granziano

I’m a relatively new artist, painting for only about four years. Always inspired by, and an avid supporter of the arts, but never thinking I had talent in the fine arts vein. I have always been drawn to decorating, garnishing my cooking and baking creations with flair, and the performing arts; although I never thought of myself as a painter. One day I bonded with a wonderful painting teacher, who in her subtle, yet ever present nurturing way inspired me to keep learning. (BIG Italian hug to Annette Gurdo) It’s  always the teachers that make us or break us, isn’t it? As a former teacher of English and reading, I know that well. 

 

I was brought up in a successful family business in Upstate New York, a restaurant and inn, where I did every task of all varieties   from cooking to accounting. All that was interspersed with teaching, my last teaching position being a humanities instructor at an art college. Now, with much of my career in the past, and the advantage of living in both New York and Florida, I have time to concentrate on my art. To convey on paper what I think is beautiful or therapeutic sometimes in a realistic way, sometimes in the abstract.

It’s calm for the soul, the mind and the heart.

 

My art has been featured in a juried show at the Healthy West Orange Arts & Heritage Center in Oakland. Through my membership in the Central Florida Watercolor Society, my work was shown in their online show, “Soaring.” Previously in New York State my florals were featured in the Art of Movement Studio. Currently, a piece is on exhibition at the Avalon Park Arts & Cultural Center. For the month of October, 2024 my work is featured in a one woman exhibition at the Canastota Public Library, a Carnegie Library, located in Upstate New York.