Sandra DeSano Pezzullo (b.1963) is a Rhode Island-based painter. Her practice is centered in the subject matter of New England landscapes rendered in oil on canvas. Inspired by the nineteenth-century American Tonalism movement and having studied under the tutelage of notable Tonalist Dennis Sheehan, her particular approach to this style is marked by a “greyed down palette,” redolent of the region’s characteristic atmosphere and dramatic seasonal metamorphoses. As she states, “It is out in Nature where I feel that every part of myself is most alive and when I am here, unmoving, I am aware of the pulse or beating heart of the natural world around me. It exists in the calm before the storm and in the smell of snow, the sting of wind-driven sleet and in the glimmer of a morning’s glow on the horizon. It is experienced through the tinted veils of atmosphere draped over a familiar place, and in a transient cast of light. It is at the ocean’s edge where I taste the salty air and hear the rhythmic sound of a distant fog horn penetrating the night or the clanging of a buoy bell as it’s tossed about haphazardly on the ocean’s foam. And I am aware of it deep within the steadfastness of granite under my boot on a mountain summit. This is the power of nature – Her heartbeat, Her pulse – and this is where my painting begins.” Sandra’s practice is founded upon studies in landscape painting and decorative arts undertaken at the Rhode Island School of Design and she is an active exhibiting member of the Providence Art Club. Her work has been exhibited widely across the United States, included in national and international private collections, and recognized with the Antonio Cirino, the Florence Brevoort Kane, and the Mary Castenovo Awards.