The 2000s:  Settling In

After the passing of her mother in the late 1990s, Pat moved back to Kansas City, to re-establish a studio there and to begin preparations for two large retrospective exhibitions, one held at the Beach Museum of Art on the campus of Kansas State University, 2000-2001 (to which institution she recently donated 1,500 slides, negatives, papers, and mixed media work).  The second retrospective was held at the Albrecht-Kemper Museum of Art in St. Joseph, Missouri.  She began new work, the Haystack Series, continuing her work in acrylics with elements of collage incorporated. 

In 2002, Pat had two paintings on view back at the site of some of her earliest artistic successes, Tokyo.  Her work was displayed at the US Embassy there as part of America’s global “Art in Embassies” program.  In 2003, she moved back to Rockport, Maine, this time permanently.  Her work was selected as part of the statewide “Maine Print Project,” as recently as 2007, with her work exhibited at the Center for Maine Contemporary Art venue, one of several for this multi-site exhibition.  Works from her “Silver Boat Series” were selected for that show. 

Currently, Pat is hard at work in Maine on her most recent series of paintings, her “Maine Tree Series” begun in 2004, comprised of drawings as well as acrylic and ink on canvas paintings inspired by some of the imposing and gestural trees surrounding her Rockport studio.  She and Herb still travel as time (and grandchildren) allow, and Pat, 52 years after her very first solo show in a Tokyo gallery, still wields a compelling brush, currently (autumn 2008) on a trip to New Mexico with husband Herb, and from where she expects to return with new work.  An artist’s work is never done!

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