Hudson's View - paintings by Patti Vincent at Salida Library

The Arts at the Library Series will feature Patti Vincent’s work the months of January/February.  

Hudson’s View is an art show by Salida artist Patti Vincent inspired by the new, pandemic driven, social norms that we are all learning to navigate and her 2-year-old grandson, Hudson, who lives in Texas. Patti (Mimi) visits Hudson weekly via Facetime and receive a plethora of photos via text and email. A large chunk of the photographs are of the animals that Hudson adores at Fossil Rim Wildlife Center where 60 animal species roam on 1,700 acres. Visitors drive their cars through the acreage with cups of animal food to hand out to the animals, from the safety of their cars.

As an artist missing her grandson, Patti started painting the animals. What started as safari animals, as seen from the view of a child’s car seat, morphed into barnyard and domestic animals…