ABOUT

Artist Statement

My abstract landscapes and collages endeavor to share personal perspectives on the Rhode Island coastal environment that has become my muse. With a sense of adventure, I make spontaneous marks with lots of texture and color to build layers, always on the lookout for a line or shape that emerges to evoke a memory. Oftentimes it is a broad view of the beaches, seascapes and marshes, but just as often it is the small things that catch my eye such as the flotsam and jetsam that washes ashore or collects in the sea grass.

Bio

As a small child Pat was scribbling on something somewhere. Since graduating from the Rhode Island School of Design, she has enjoyed a career making art all over the place.

She began as a graphic designer working with oceanographers in Woods Hole compiling their lab work into maps, graphs and illustrations for publication. Along the way, clay found it's way into her hands and a 36 year business was born making ceramic tiles, mirrors, tables and large commissioned wall pieces for homes and restaurants across the country. In 2017, itching to satisfy a long time desire to make abstract art, she closed her tile business and set to work painting. Since then, she has exhibited in many art shows and galleries throughout New England and is in several private collections.