Deep Breath: How Andrea Padovani Sees Cortes Island

Roy L Hales - Andrea Padovani is a professional artist who has been living on Cortes for much of the last 17 years, but there is a sense in which his show ‘Deep Breath,’ which opens in the Old Schoolhouse Art Gallery this Friday, is his introduction to the larger island community.

He explained, "I have a problem  expressing my real deep feelings  in a conversation, if you really want to know me, look at my paintings. That this really represents a hundred percent of what I am." 

Cortes Currents: Do you find people get it? 

Andrea Padovini: "10 percent."   

"It took me 17 years before I really understood and allowed myself  to go and to really portray the different beauty of Cortes.  Obviously I could do the first year, but that would've been a technical expression. What I'm going to show in my show is the way in which I see Cortes."