Growing
up on Colorado's Front Range, and living for the last 30 years in the mountains
and western slope of Colorado, Patricia has a deep love of nature and the outdoors.
Her professional background is in archaeology, although drawing and painting have
always been dominant aspects of her life. The outdoors has long been a focus of
her activities, both for work and personal enjoyment, providing abundant ideas
for her art. An avid backpacker, hunter
and fly fisher, a natural extension of her time outdoors is painting on location.
She is a dedicated plein air painter using both watercolor and oil, but concentrates
on watercolors in her studio work. Patricia's
art training has included formal academic coursework, numerous workshops and private
study both here and abroad. In 1992, one of her watercolors was juried into the
prestigious Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum's "Birds in Art" exhibit,
putting her artwork in the national spotlight. Yet it wasn't until she spent part
of 2001 and 2002 living in Florence, Italy, where she immersed herself in art
and explored the Italian landscape, that she decided to make the commitment to
paint full-time. Her focus is on sporting art, landscape, wildlife, and European
scenes. She now divides her time between Glenwood Springs, Colorado, and Santa
Fe, New Mexico. |
