Pat Jeffers...contemporary paintings celebrating a vision of the land

News and Representation.
The most recent news on Pat and her basketry is that she RETIRED! In June 2011 after over 20 truly wonderful years of weaving, Pat's love for painting said, "It's time that I got center-stage." Since 2000 Pat had dabbled with painting off and on, but never had the time to truly immerse herself into that art form. Now she does! Watch for the development of her new website: www.patjeffers.com which will feature her paintings.

Despite being quite the newbie, Pat's paintings have already won an award and been juried into two national shows.

Pat's last baskets are still available at these location:

Ago Gallery in Ouray, CO, Galleries West in Jackson, WY, Toklat Gallery in Basalt, CO, Tubac Territory Furniture and Interior Design in Tubac, AZ, and Your Private Collection Gallery in Granbury, TX.


Artist's Statement

MANY YEARS AGO: the associate director of continuing education at a state university in Virginia, specializing in adult learning and education.

THEN: the discovery of “art”, more specifically fiber art, and the pursuit of that for my inner self and as my livelihood for 21 years, with both my artistic baskets and my fiber sculptures expressing my fascination with the flow and undulation of landforms, my abstracted rendering of the world around me through texture, color and form.

IN 2000: the introduction to painting, at first purely as a hobby, a pleasant diversion, something new to learn, while continuing to pursue my passion for wicker weaving.

FOLLOWED BY: a growing pull over the next few years to create my love for the land in paint rather than in fiber.

AND FINALLY: in 2010 laying aside fiber art to take up the path of painting fulltime, still with the desire to share the inner stillness, rhythm and harmony of the land with those who view my work, to share hidden places; quiet, overlooked spaces; the interior “rooms” the land offers us where we fine peace and are restored and healed.

2012