June Artist of the Month

The Barrington Cultural Arts Center (BCAC) is pleased to have PATRICA STOLARSKI as the featured artist at the BCAC gallery at the Ice House Mall for the month of June, 2017.

"We're all players in this thing called life, at different levels, with different complexities" - Patricia believes that as we explore the world, we are exploring ourselves & vice versa. When she began painting, she often worked with family portraits to tell the stories of her ancestors, and later gravitated to exploring ideas, emotions and concepts. She often incorporates birds as the actors - birds are beautiful in their simplicity & instinctive behaviors & they don't get in the way of the message. She works with mixed media - acrylic, pastels, papers, textures and found objects, sometimes embellishing with oils.

Patricia relocated here from Camano Island, WA a few years ago. There, she exhibited in various venues regionally and in Seattle, including: A Guilded Gallery (Stanwood, WA), The Northwest Watercolor Society juried 'Waterworks' 2009 (Bothell), and The Eastside Association of Fine Art's Open Juried Exhibitions 2011 and 2012 (Bellevue and Seattle, respectively) .

Patricia has work published in the book, The Women of Mary's Place, which is a collection of biographies and portraits of homeless and previously homeless women in Seattle who have sought refuge and sanctuary at Mary's Place. All proceeds from the book go toward helping these women work toward a stable, safe place in the community.

Patricia was also commissioned to paint her interpretation of the ancestral home of Rose Laughlin for the cover of her CD, "House of Memories" (www.roselaughlin.com ).

Recently, Patricia was honored with the First Place award in the Artist's Magazine's 2016 All Media Competition, Mixed Media category, for her painting, "Options".

Additional works by Patricia can be found at: www.pmrobinsonstudio.com.