Artist Profile

Wind on the Sea, acrylic on canvas, 30" x 36". Click on image for larger view.

Patricia Brown is a versatile abstract painter who works in a range of media including oil acrylic watercolor, mixed media and collage. Her innovative and colorful paintings have won numerous awards including the Award of Excellence from Manhattan Arts International Magazine, and the Award of Distinction from Rockport Publishers.

She has had many one-person exhibitions, including those at the Half Moon Bay Museum, CA, Grants Pass Museum of Art, OR, and Gallery One in Ellensburg, WA. Her painting, "A Rose is a Rose" was selected by Ambassador Maisto for a three year exhibition at the U.S. Embassy in Managua, Nicaragua.

Patricia's work has appeared in many fine art publications. It was featured on the title page and other pages of Rockport Publisher's book "The Best of Sketching and Drawing", in addition to "Creative Inspirations", and "The Best of Oil Painting", also published by Rockport. She was selected among artists worldwide to appear as one of "The Artists in the 1990's" in Manhattan Arts International magazine.

She was selected to be included in Broderbund Software's edition of Print Shop Deluxe and Version 6 of Print Shop and her painting "The Vineyard" was chosen by James Tobin Cellars for their wine label to be on their varietal wine Viognier.

The artist says, "Painting is meditation for me. I find painting to be a healing experience. It brings me joy, and I wish to pass that joy on to the viewer. The beauty in Nature, especially the ocean, inspires my paintings. Observing nature, really seeing and feeling it, enables me to work without a predetermined design. I am never certain where a painting will lead me -- it is my spirit in action."