Patricia works in both St. Paul and Knife River, MN. She paints in an expressionistic manner, working directly from nature using lush oil paints on linen or canvas. In much of her work, Patricia represents Lake Superior and the small fishing village of Knife River, focusing on marina, sky, land and water studies.

The artist, a 2006 recipient of the St. Paul Foundation Travel and Study Grant, experienced a sojourn in China and a residency at the I-Park Artists Enclave in East Haddam, Connecticut. She has been awarded two McKnight Artist Fellowships and an Arrowhead Regional Artist Fellowship and was a finalist for a Bush Artist Fellowship. She was an artist-in-residence at The MacDowell Colony in Peterborough, New Hampshire; The Yaddo Colony in Sarasota Springs, New York; and at Harper’s Ferry National Park, West Virginia. Patricia has served as a panelist for the Minnesota Artists Exhibition Program at the Minneapolis Institute of Art.

Patricia’s paintings have been exhibited at venues nationwide, notably at Provincetown Art Association in Massachusetts and Gayle Elston Gallery in New York City. Her work has been shown at the Tweed Museum in Duluth, at the Minneapolis Institute of Art and at St. Paul’s Minnesota Museum of American Art.