The January RAL Art Center windows will feature art by Joyce Satterwhite and Bob Casazza. As patrons visit the gallery to see, “You Be The Judge,” they might find a favorite artist right on Main Street in the windows.
Satterwhite paints to tell a story about the people and places she encounters, said Ellen Huddy of the RAL communications team.
Satterwhite has traveled extensively throughout the U.S. and Europe, taking workshops, classes and attending art events. After retirement in 2017 as owner of Precision One Salon and Spa in Richmond, Satterwhite became more involved with the RAL Art Center as well as with the Virginia Plein Air Painters. The oils that she paints are done in a contemporary style, sometimes impressionistic and always with a degree of realism.
Satterwhite likes to travel, no matter the time of year, and she will very often combine her travels with any opportunity to paint. Winter and Autumn are intriguing to her, as can be seen in her featured painting, “Arcadian Autumn,” which was painted this year when she traveled to Maine. Although the weather wasn’t very accommodating, with wind and rain and much of Maine already shut down in October, Arcadia Park was a draw for her.
“Arcadian Autumn” was painted from the photographs that she took during respites from wind, rain and clouds. It was appealing to her how the clouds actually seemed to accent the foliage and brighten the landscape.
Satterwhite has memberships with the Bon Air Association and the Crossroads Art Gallery in Richmond. Now living happily on the NNK, she has become an award-winning artist at the RAL Art Center.
Casazza began drawing at a young age and developed a strong interest in cartooning and animation, said Huddy. As a fine arts major at the University of Maryland, he excelled at drawing, illustration, painting and printmaking and developed strong graphic design and marketing skills.
He is now retired from a long and rewarding career in television, working in Chicago, Seattle and Washington, D.C., in various capacities, including as a prominent art director, television and advertising producer-director and marketing specialist.
Painting and illustration and other art projects were also part-time escapes for Casazza throughout his busy career. Many of these paintings were created with a 2-D technique, using vinyl acrylic paint on plexiglass mounted over another painted background.
He used this method when creating the piece featured in the Gallery Windows titled ”Day in the Life,” which is a composite painting of John Lennon and The Beatles. This painting was one of two highlighted in the 2006 book, Beatles Art: Fantastic New Artwork of the Fab Four.
Casazza’s work is different, not always traditional and still evolving. Now living with his wife in the Northern Neck, he is a full-time artist exploring new subjects and creating a larger body of work, striving to offer something bold, colorful and new in his art.
