Annette Pate
Annette Pate, a native of Summerville, South Carolina, near Charleston, longed to paint full-time. She was a Sunday painter all of her life until 1986 when she fulfilled her life long dream. She left her career with Eastern Airlines to become a professional artist. She has studied since that time with Elsie Dresch of Atlanta.
​
“The impressionists are my inspiration.”
Annette Pate’s paintings express her fascination with sunlight and shadows through oil and acrylics. The Southern landscape is her main inspiration for her impressionistic paintings of gardens, flowers, and landscapes.
Annette finds the hills of North Georgia to be as glorious as anywhere in the world. Her paintings of them are often confused for Tuscany by her collectors. Her still life paintings are popular for their play of light and painterly quality.
You can often find Annette in antique shops searching for the perfect piece of pottery to inspire one of her paintings. Since Annette summers in the artist colonies of Cape Ann Massachusetts it shows up in her work as well.
“Just as I am compelled to paint by the golden light of evening, I stop to marvel, when I walk through my kitchen and see sunlight shining on a bowl of oranges. I am also called to paint by the rich color and tactile beauty of a piece of pottery.”
​
Annette resides in Roswell, Georgia with her husband, art dealer Jim Saunders and her family of poets and artists. She is a juried member of the Atlanta artist club. Her work is in many private and corporate collections.