Art was always Patricia's first love, but it had to wait while she practiced law, raised a family and wrote a book. Now it's art's turn.
Even when Patricia wasn’t painting, art was always present in the imagery she could capture in photographs, jewelry-making, the treasured pieces that hung on her walls, her gardens, and her study and appreciation of nature's design. She painted for a short time in the 1990s. Two paintings won 'best in show' in juried competitions in New Westminster, British Columbia and were shown at the BC Festival of the Arts - Images and Objects shows in 1993 and 1994. She also had a two-person art show at the Contemporary Art Gallery in Vancouver. She returned to painting a few years ago.
Patricia's awareness of the environment, and especially her connection to water, began when she was very young. She grew up at a uranium mine on Lake Athabasca, a fierce and beautiful place in northern Canada, then spent years with her future husband exploring British Columbia’s Gulf Islands in a home-built, ferro-cement ketch. She lived on the sailboat for a time, and in 1971, they sailed the boat with two other crew members to Hawaii, a trip especially notable when they lost the rudder mid-ocean. Since then, she her family have enjoyed West Coast life beside the ocean and summers at a gorgeous lake. These experiences have shaped how she views the world.
Climate change threatens everything that is precious to her. On her website she includes names and links to the environmental organizations that will receive 50% of the sale price of each painting.
