Contact Information:

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email: patricia@raincollective.com

ARTIST STATEMENT:

My work reflects my passion for the beauty of the natural world and how I experience it. There is a wildness in everything around us – it exists even though we try to tame it. Through my expression of the “wild” horse, I release my creative spirit into the universe. My love of nature and the wild stems from my childhood growing up in western Kansas – where the prairie meets the sky. It is in that sense of freedom that my creativity finds its expression. My deep paintings of flowers tempt me with their innate beauty and inner mystery. Matisse once said that in order to paint a rose, an artist must forget all the roses that have ever been painted. I believe this is true.

I have been an artist all my life. I believe that we all are. It is a way of seeing the world through eyes that notice beauty, color, contrast and composition.


RESUME:

Education:

1985-1988 University of Minnesota, College of Design
2001 River School of Fine Art
1993-2001 Sally Brown Studio School
2006-07 Workshops with Hazel Belvo, Grand Marias, Minnesota


Selected Exhibitions:

2007 “The Color of White” Grand Marias, Minnesota
2007 “Beneath the Snow” Minnesota Landscape Arboretum, Chaska
2004, 2005, 2006 Keg House Collective, Annual Show, Minneapolis
2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 Art-A-Whirl, Minneapolis
2003 “Images of War” Babylon Gallery, Minneapolis
2003 Homewoods Studios Gallery, Minneapolis
2002 Homewoods Studios Gallery, Minneapolis
2001 Women's Visions--Women’s Venture, Invitational. St. Paul
2001 The 20x20 Group Show, Hopkins Center for the Arts. Juried
2000 The Foot in the Door, Minneapolis Institute of Art
2000 Gallery 96, Shoreview, Minnesota
l999 Minnetonka Center for the Arts, Minnetonka, Juried 1998 The 20x20 group show, Unity Unitarian Church, St. Paul


Community Activities:

Artistic Direction Committee, Member, Gallery 96, 1999-2001
Featured Artist, St. Paul Pioneer Press, 2001


Curator:

Gallery 96, 2000
Homewoods Studio, 2002, 2003
Hopkins Center for the Arts, 2006


Teaching Experience:

Studio workshops for children, Summer, 2006, 2007
Visiting Art Teacher, Bethune School, Minneapolis Public School, 2007