Zofia Lategano is a landscape painter residing in Leesburg, VA. She graduated from Monclair State University in New Jersey with a Master of Arts degree in 1990. She has received training in Poland and travelled to Italy, where she painted a series of “plein air” landscapes. Her main source of inspirations comes from the Outer Banks of North Carolina, where she vacationed and lived for a number of years. She says of her work, “My paintings and photographs are inspired by the natural beauty of the environment around me. While walking through the countryside or strolling along a deserted beach during the winter months, I am inspired to capture the feeling of the vastness on canvas. The skies, the clouds, and the colors of the landscape, which change with the seasons leave me with inspirations for an infinite number of painting, waiting to be created. I usually have several works in progress in my studio at any given time.