Artist Information

Country

USA

Full Name

Patricia Savage

City

Raleigh

Website

http://www.psavageartist.com

Further Information

Biography of Patricia Savage

Patricia Savage grew up in North Carolina and currently resides in Raleigh. She has been a professional artist since 1987. She enjoys the freedom as an artist to explore a number of media. She works primarily with chalk pastels and dry-brush watercolor, pursuing the richness of feelings and textures that these media allow for the expression of her visual ideas.
She has traveled throughout North America and Europe to explore different lands and habitats as a close observer of nature, reflected in the subjects of her paintings.
Several of Patricia’s botanical paintings are featured in Today’s Botancial Artists, featuring top American artists. The Pastel Journals’ 6th Annual Pastel 100 Competition awarded Patricia with Best in Wildlife and Honorable Mention in Wildlife. Denali National Park invited her to spend 10 days living in the park as Artist-in-Residence during 2004. A painting from this experience hangs on permanent display in the Park’s new Murie Center. In 2001, Patricia participated as a scholar (expedition artist) in the Smith College project The 1899 Harriman Expedition Retraced: A Century of Change. A television special about this scientific and cultural exploration of Alaska appeared on PBS in June, 2003. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation commissioned a painting of the endangered Red-cockaded Woodpecker, and used a limited edition print as a fund-raiser for conservation efforts. Her work has appeared in The Best in Wildlife Art 2 and The Best in Wildlife Art (North Light Books); in a limited-edition art book North American Endangered and Protected Species; and in publications such as US Art, Focus magazine (Milan, Italy), Wildlife Art, and Wildlife in North Carolina.
Her paintings have been shown at a number of museums and annual shows around the world, including the Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, the Hiram Bleauvelt Museum, the Wildlife Experience, the Bell Museum of Natural History, the National Geographic Society, the U. S. Botanic Gardens, and Walt Disney World’s Animal Kingdom. She is a signature member of the Society of Animal Artists, who have awarded her an Award of Excellence and shown her work in many juried annual shows and national tours. Patricia is also a Signature member of the Pastel Society of America.
Patricia’s collectors include the past Art Director of Wildlife in North Carolina magazine, the North Carolina Artists collection of Glaxo-Smith-Kline, the Director of the North Carolina Museum of Natural History, the Red-Cockaded Woodpecker Conservation Fund, the Department of the Interior, Shoals Marine Laboratory, and the Director of the Clark Science Center, Smith College.
Patricia teaches at the University of North Carolina Botanical Garden’s Botanical Illustration Certificate Program and is a member of the garden’s Advisory Council. Across the country, she teaches workshops and classes in Watercolor, Pastel, Composition, and Color Theory. She has also given lectures about her adventures as well as her avocation to various groups and museums.

Techniques: Pastel, Watercolor, Oil, Egg Tempera, Scratchboard, and Pencil.

History

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