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About The Artist
Pauletta M. Chanco was born and raised in Manila, Philippines, until she came to California to study painting at UC Berkeley. She studied under Karl Kasten, Joan Brown, Chris Brown, Elmer Bischoff, George Miyasaki, Sylvia Lark, Mary O’Neal, Hassel Smith and Richard Shaw. She also attended hands-on seminars with Nathan Oliveira to learn about painterly methods in printmaking.
Early in her life, Pauletta discovered a deep connection between painting and the spiritual life. In her late 30s she began to examine and become inspired by this connection enough to manifest it in her paintings. She has taught painting, drawing and independent study as visiting faculty at UC Berkeley and continues to lecture about the importance of creativity and how it can nurture one’s soul.
Many collectors have expressed amazement at how her paintings change in appearance and in what they reveal and conceal from day to day. This is a testament to how seemingly “fixed and arrested” works of art such as paintings have an inner, vibrant life force of their own, and depend on what each individual viewer brings to the visual process of looking at them.
Pauletta is reaching out to wider audiences with her work, with hope that engaging in relationship with her art will help the world to slow down, find deep inner solace and connection. Contemplation of her work can serve as a catalyst for encouraging physical, mental and psychological space amidst a contemporary world inundated with fast-paced living and material consumption.
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