Fanny Pallaro

Artist Statement

Sitting Blue Man from Monte Verde Mamiwataa (Many Water) Fanny Pallaro is both a painter and a clay sculpture artist. Fanny was brought up in a community of artisans named Abbaye de Soreze near Toulouse, France. Her father was also a painter and sculpturer. Trained as a painter and visual artist, she has worked professionally as a graphic designer. A friend asked her to create a sculpture and word quickly spread about her work. Shortly thereafter she was invited to start showing her sculptures in exhibitions and shows. Fanny has a degree in the Philosophie of Art Studiea. However, she enjoys working with her hands and learned to paint as a result of that. Her artistic skills were honed through an apprenticeship program where she learned from other experienced craftspeople and, as she says, “that was the road that opened up to me.” She prefers to work with materials from nature that we can find everywhere. She says that her life experiences definitely influence her work, whether realistic or fantasy found in the dreamlike nature of “onirisme.” Fanny’s work can be experienced in multiple dimensions, both literal as well as existential. She enjoys probing the link between nature and man and is fascinated by what she calls the “mystery” of the human face. She also enjoys time spent here in Costa Rica because the line between nature and man is less defined.