Pati Bannister
"Whatever Paty portrays: a country kitchen or a breakfast table, flooded with morning light, spring bloom, a summer garden, an autumn landscape or the first snow, her extraordinary girls are shrouded in a magical halo of mystery that the modern viewer has to unravel." Party Bannister (1929-2013) - artist originally from England, At the age of 13, the girl was making sketches for a prestigious magazine. And later she worked as an animator for a movie mogul. In 1958, her family moved to New Orleans, where they could start a serious career as an artist. Alas, in December 2005, hurricane Katrina swept over the Gulf of Mexico and completely destroyed the artist's studio, where many of the paintings were kept.
