PATTY MULLINS

Patty Mullins earned a BFA from State University of New York, Purchase and studied at the New York Academy of Art.  She lives and works in Sharon, CT.

Recent exhibitions include “The Edge Effect”, an international exhibition at the Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY, juried by Akili Tommasino, Associate Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston as well as the national juried exhibition, Far & Wide, at the Woodstock Art Association and Museum in Woodstock, NY.

Her work is included in the collections of James Wyeth and the estate of Melva Bucksbaum as well as many other private collections across the country.  She is the recipient of a Creative Artists Network Fellowship and a Vermont Studio Center Fellowship.

  “For me, painting is a process of discovery.  Like an archeologist, I start with an idea of what I'm after without knowing exactly what I'll find; images trigger memory and emotion, and as I paint I follow the emotion and find layers of meaning.  My paintings combine elements that are imagined or abstracted with those directly observed.  I seek to expose and reveal the personal and particular while touching the universal.”