Provence Collection

In the tradition of Monet and the great plein air landscape painters, Angela Manno returns faithfully each summer to the heart of Provence spending long days in the wildly luxuriant lavender fields, equipped only with her pastels and a vision of her final goal to transport the viewer back to these indescribable scenes through her art. When the fields are harvested, Manno returns to her studio in the US, where she sometimes takes the imagery a step further, creating new works in oils and encaustic, an ancient, wax-based medium dating back to 5th century BC Greece. The resulting works based on her plein air work have a luminous beauty that seem to glow from within.