Patti has always had her own style of painting, a style that has changed with her life experiences. Her most recent paintings are dramatic, brilliantly colored and complex expressions of her imagination and personal spiritual journey. The colors, symbols and images are all woven together to create a whole that is much greater than the sum of its parts. Her paintings are creations that make a statement and tell a story that speaks to the human soul.

Patti's passion is working with acrylics and oils on large canvasses. Recently, she modified one of her original paintings for adaptation as a wool carpet, 5 feet by 7 feet in size.

Her most recent creations are images of everyday and mythical goddesses. These paintings represent the myth and symbols associated with each goddess. At present, Patti is creating a series of original paintings for a goddess cookbook. Each painting represents the myth and symbols of the goddess and the foods from her table.

Patti's training in Fine Arts includes special studies at Carnegie Mellon and the Pittsburgh Institute of Art. She also participated in the BFA program at Moore College of Art. She has studied creativity and human potential development with Dr. Jean Houston, and theatre arts with Peggy Rubin.

She is an exhibiting member of the Guild of Creative Art, the Art Alliance of Monmouth County, and Cycles, an artists' group dedicated to women in contemporary arts. Her work is shown in a number of New Jersey galleries, as well as galleries in New York, Colorado, Kansas and Massachusetts. Her painting of icons of Asbury Park was auctioned on Bruce Springsteen's web site. Patti started 2000 with a one-woman show at Wainwright House, Rye, N.Y., and paintings in the Monmouth County Council of the Arts Show and the 21st Annual Monmouth Festival of the Arts Juried Show '00.