Patricia has been a member of the Society of Botanical Artists since 1991 and exhibits annually with the society at Westminster. She has had work with the Bridgeman Art Library and is represented in the Government Art Collection. Peter Bell Fine Arts in Burford commissioned her to create topographical etchings in colour. Born in Leicester Patricia moved as a child with her family to Ireland. "Here, wonderful landscape and colours made a lasting impression and I began to draw and paint early on," she recalls. Patricia first studied drawing and commercial art at the National College of Art, Dublin; going on to study painting and printmaking at the City & Guilds School of Art, London, winning a travel award for study in Florence. Later she became tutor of botanical drawing at the City & Guilds Art School.