About the Artist

Throughout my life, in everything that I have done and seen, I have always felt a very strong influence of art. As a young child I spent a summer enrolled in an art program at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, where I would spend the entire morning gazing at the paintings and sculptures of the old masters. I was totally immersed in some of the greatest works of art produced over the past several millennia. As an adolescent, I expanded my love of art through the tutelage and guidance of artist Toni Scorziello of Brookline, who taught me to see the beauty in a solitary apple, a contorted ballerina or a shrouded madonna. I learned the joy of applying paint to the canvas, of expressing feelings and mood with pigment and oils.

My love of art has always been with me. It expresses itself in my fascination of life, my love for my wife and children, my cooking, my socializing and my work. However, it was not until long after establishing a career in banking, and having helped to raise a family that I found my love of painting rekindled. I spent about a year reacquainting myself with brush and paint and canvas under the guidance of Martha Oldham at the Danforth Museum School of Art in Framingham, MA. I continued to study art and to develop my skills under the tutelage of Boston Artist Michael Dowling. With Michael’s guidance I not only developed my skills as a painter, I learned to reconcile the banker with the artist, and to draw upon both strengths to gain the confidence needed to present my vision to others.

Paul M. Pecci
Natick & Mashpee, Massachusetts
brushstroke55@hotmail.com
508-477-1289

Over the past decade I have grown in my technical, spiritual and esthetic abilities, gaining confidence and recognition as an artist through showings in many venues throughout eastern Massachusetts. Through solo and group showings at the Danforth Museum, various venues in MetroWest, South Shore and the Cape, my internet website, and through open studio events in Natick, I have successfully presented my work to a growing public. My body of work continues to metamorphosis with the strong influence of my surroundings. Of late, my travels throughout Italy have had a major impact on my work. The calls of my ancestors, the revisiting of ancient stone cities and tiny mountain paths through cultivated olive groves and vineyards, are with me always, and will continue to manifest themselves into my vision.

I welcome you to share my vision – to walk, where I have walked – to see what I have seen – and to experience what I have experienced. Life is truly beautiful.

"AFTERNOON TEA"
oil on canvas
16 x 20