People's Choice Winner

Wow! I am so honored to have been selected as the top six out of over 175 artists at the Rockland Arts Virtual Festival. I am humbled because I didn’t really believe it was a possibility for me. I couldn’t have done it without the help of all those wonderful souls who have been supporting me throughout my artist journey.

Our reward for winning is that the Rockland Arts Festival will market us each throughout their various platforms. The promotional video that they created for me is below.

The pictures and paintings included in this video are as follows:

1. The picture of me is by Clara Wang Photography.

2. Delicate Beauty, ©2018, Acrylic on canvas, 40x30x.8 inches

3. Fig Leaves, ©2019, Acrylic on canvas, 24x20x.8 inches

4. Dual Complexity, ©2018, Acrylic on canvas, 40x30x.8 inches

5. The Matriarch, ©2019, Acrylic on canvas, 40x30x.8 inches

6. Evergreen, ©2020, Acrylic on canvas, 24x20x1.5 inches

7. Paradise, ©2019, Acrylic on canvas, 40x40x1.5 inches

8. The rest of the pictures were selected by Rockland Arts Festival

Thanks for watching and thanks for voting! I appreciate you.

Featured Art: Evergreen

My painting Evergreen was accepted into the Rockland Virtual Arts Festival from April 1 - 30, 2021. As part of my participation, I created a video that lasted less than two minutes describing my painting. Here I talked more about the process than the feelings involved. You can watch the video below. It is on the Rockland Arts Festival Youtube channel.

What got cut out of the video is the meaning behind the painting. I use a lot of my representational work as metaphors for my feelings, experiences, and opinions. Evergreen is about our inner strength. It’s about our ability to go through the harshest of times, all the while discovering the inner strength that helps us to make it through.

©February 2020, Francesca Bandino, Evergreen. Acrylic on Canvas, 24x20x1.5 inches.

In situ image by Francesca Bandino