Patricia Prescott Sueme

Patricia Prescott grew up drawing and painting, surrounded by a family lineage overflowing with artists and creative people. She graduated with honors from Art Center College of Design in 1985. After years of a busy and fulfilling career as a graphic designer, Prescott still itched to create art from her heart and returned to oil painting in 2000.

Prescott’s first show at Lisa Coscino Gallery in Pacific Grove, California, sold out. Prescott continued painting in the style for which became noted: a combination of old world glazing techniques with a graphic eye and an obsession with subtleties of color. Her body of work is often comprised of pared down, idealized imagery with uncomplicated compositions. The subtle layering of color and further refinement of simple compositions and balance are what keep sending her back to the easel.

In 2014, Patricia opened a vintage box of pastels she inherited from her grandmother many years earlier. This was the beginning of a new obsession for her, soft pastels. Pastel brought a new freedom that allowed her to devote time almost every day to experimenting and growing, with the ultimate goal of bringing a freshness to this exquisite old-world medium while maintaining a nod to tradition - the very same approach she took as an oil painter. With this new exploration, her re-emergence as a pastel painter commenced.

Based on the land and seas of California, Prescott’s pastel paintings can be best described as interpretive jewels of experiences in nature.