biography

Patricia Moran began a painting career after spending many years as a secretary and personal assistant. She began fulltime study in 1977 and held her first solo exhibition in 1978. Since then she has had many solo and group exhibitions at galleries around Australia and in London.

Her many top awards include two Camberwell Rotary Gold Medals and the coveted Alice Bale Overseas Study Award.

Patricia’s work covers landscapes, still life, and in particular flowers. In fact, her love of flowers has inspired two books and recently a video on the artist and her work.

In her work she strives to achieve a quality of workmanship that is neither slick, sloppy or overworked but is fresh, painted with care, and above all, truthful. “Technique” is not a word she considers would relate to Fine Art. She says: “I have observed that only representational art can give the feeling the subject is there and can be touched. As the achievement of this is always in the next painting to be done, I have adhered to the representational mode of painting in the hope that one day I will get it right, inspired by those who have.”

Patricia is represented in many private collections and her work has been acquired by academic and civic institutions.