Patti Tronolone

Patti Tronolone is an artist, poet and healer. From 1996-2016 she lived and worked  in Provincetown, Massachusetts  and Taos, New Mexico. In 2017 Patti relocated back to her birthplace, Baltimore, Maryland where she has taken up her life anew, painting in her studio.

As a young woman she began writing poetry while also pursuing a successful career as an art furniture maker, printmaker and painter.

  At 33 Patti began a lifelong exploration of Reiki, a refined energy healing practice, which led her into a focused study of dreams and how they might heal and guide our lives. Her knowledge of the teachings of Carl Jung, James Hillman and Robert A Johnson, as well as an intensive 10-year apprenticeship with a spiritual mentor, have all informed this practice. 

 In her book, “A Secret Brightening, Poems and Paintings of the Inner Landscape”, published in 2016, Patti brings together all of the multi-layered elements of her talent, threading the worlds of painting, poetry, healing and dream interpretation, each discipline enriched and illuminated by the others. Her luminous and psychologically powerful landscapes stand side by side with the poetry of dreams and visions.  To experience these two art forms side by side is to travel into realms in which nature, dream and human experience join their bountiful powers.

  In Baltimore Patti began making large charcoal drawings of geological forms. These drawings have been described as x-rays—describing the inner energy of these rock formations. Recently she has begun making larger collaged pieces, creating a narrative environment within which the cut out drawings of natural elements speak.

Of her visual art and her life she says, “ Travel has impacted my psyche with beauty where the eye becomes entrained to the elements, the senses to the very physicality of the earth—here the gap can be closed between outside and inside through art."