Born in Hobart in 1932, always loving drawing and painting, Patricia had a term at Art School aged seventeen, but had to leave to earn a living as a seceretary. She attended night classes, and in 1961 was able to give up boring secretarial work and open Hobart’s first commercial art gallery.
This opened the world of art and artists to her – especially when Max Angus, already a well-known painter, asked her to join his Sunday painting group. They painted and exhibited together for the next sixty years, becoming famous as Tasmania’s foremost watercolour landscape painters.
Patricia particularly loved painting untouched, wild...
